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Opabinia regalis, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Age, replica #713

Description: Opabinia regalis, Burgess Shale, replica 4 1/8 x 2 3/8 x 1/4 inch Very Rare Cast of this Burgess Shale Specimen Resin/Plastic Replica. Not a Sculpture Cambrian Age, BC, Canada. This creature with its five eyes is a strange looking one indeed. Wielding a long flexible proboscis tipped with grasping spines, its reconstructed image was greeted with laughter as a pretty good joke when first presented at a scientific meeting in 1972. The strange-looking reconstruction was soon confirmed, and this creature remains one of the oddities of the Burgess Shale fauna. Opabinia is thought to have lived in the soft sediment on the seabed, although it presumably could have swum after prey using its side lobes. On the bottom, the proboscis could have plunged into sand burrows after worms. Sizes ranged up to three inches, plus that unique, amazing one inch proboscis! Superficially, Opabinia resembles a crustacean (crusta = hard outer surface or shell), like a shrimp or a lobster, but lacks important, distinguishing details. It remains unassigned to any other extinct or currently living, major group. The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At 508 million years old (middle Cambrian), it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints. The rock unit is a black shale and crops out at a number of localities near the town of Field in Yoho National Park and the Kicking Horse Pass. Another outcrop is in Kootenay National Park 42 km to the south.

Price: 30 USD

Location: Barrackville, West Virginia

End Time: 2024-08-01T14:22:37.000Z

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Opabinia regalis, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Age, replica #713

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