21167 - Top Rare Anomalocaridid Aegirocassis benmoulai filter feeding appendage Ordovician Mammites nodosoides Link: http://journals

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Huge specimen

Platecarpus sp

The texture is porphyritic

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21167 - Top Rare Anomalocaridid Aegirocassis benmoulai filter feeding appendage Ordovician Mammites nodosoides Link: http://journalsTop rare filter feeding appendage of the anomalocaridid Aegirocassis benmoulai Aegirocassis is an extinct genus of anomalocarid arthropod belonging to the family Hurdiidae that lived 480 million years ago during the early Ordovician. It is known by a single species, Aegirocassis benmoulai. A fossil of A. benmoulai from the Fezouata biota, Morocco was discovered by and named after Mohamed Ben Moula, a fossil collector who recognized its rare