Very rare endemite european horseshoe crab Belinurus silesiacus from Silesia !

Description

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Specimen:
Extremely rare european horseshoe crab
Belinurus silesiacus
Konig 1825
prosoma
from
very hard to reach now fossil from old collection  !
Locality:
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Stratigraphy:
Upper Carboniferous,
Bashkirian
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Namurian B,
Age:
ca. 320 Mya
Nodule size :
ca 14,0 x 9,5 x 2,0 cm
( white square on pictures is 1,0 x 1,0 cm)
Description:
Extremely rare european endemite fossil h
orseshoe crab
Belinurus silesiacus
Konig 1825
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Xiphosurida, Limulina, from faumous, old and closed location
in Europe preserved in ironstone nodules.
Horseshoe crabs resemble crustaceans, but belong to a separate subphylum, Chelicerata, and are closely related to eurypterids and arachnids. The earliest horseshoe crab fossils are found in strata from the late Ordovician period, roughly 450 Mya.
Horseshoe crabs are marine arthropods of the family Limulidae and order Xiphosura or Xiphosurida, that live primarily in and around shallow ocean waters on soft sandy or muddy bottoms. They occasionally come onto shore to mate. They are commonly used as bait and in fertilizer. In recent years, a decline in the population has occurred as a consequence of coastal habitat destruction in Japan and overharvesting along the east coast of North America. Tetrodotoxin may be present in the roe of species inhabiting the waters of Thailand.
Because of their origin 450 million years ago (Mya), horseshoe crabs are considered living fossils.