GEOLOGICAL FOSSIL CAMBRIAN ARTHROPOD FROM CANADA Cambrian Period, 545-495 million years BP A Marrella Splendens arthropod, showing many details of the morphology, from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. 21 grams, 70 mm (2 3/4"). Very fine condition. [No Reserve] Provenance Ex Douglas Rose collection; from British Columbia, Canada. Footnotes Marrella is thought to have been a benthic marine scavenger living on detrital and particulate materia and is related to trilobites; the species is a small creature, 2 cm or less in length with a head shield having two pairs of long rearward spikes; on the underside of the head are two pairs of antennae, one long and sweeping, the second shorter and stouter. It has a body composed of 24–26 body segments, each with a pair of branched appendages; the lower branch of each appendage is a leg for walking, while the upper branch is a long, feathery gill.
GEOLOGICAL FOSSIL CAMBRIAN ARTHROPOD FROM CANADA Cambrian Period, 545-495 million years BP A Marrella Splendens arthropod, showing many details of the morphology, from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. 21 grams, 70 mm (2 3/4"). Very fine condition. [No Reserve] Provenance Ex Douglas Rose collection; from British Columbia, Canada. Footnotes Marrella is thought to have been a benthic marine scavenger living on detrital and particulate materia and is related to trilobites; the species is a small creature, 2 cm or less in length with a head shield having two pairs of long rearward spikes; on the underside of the head are two pairs of antennae, one long and sweeping, the second shorter and stouter. It has a body composed of 24–26 body segments, each with a pair of branched appendages; the lower branch of each appendage is a leg for walking, while the upper branch is a long, feathery gill.
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