21090 - Museum Grade Exceptional Soft Bodied Marrellomorph (Furca mauretanica) Ordovician Psammechinus Tajikistan (2)

Tajikistan (2)

No fractures or restoration

a quite common species in the phosphate quarries of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco)

of which 245 are extinct and appear only in the fossil record

Tajikistan

21090 - Museum Grade Exceptional Soft Bodied Marrellomorph (Furca mauretanica) Ordovician Psammechinus Tajikistan (2)Nice and rare marrellomorph primitive arthopod Furca (VanRoy 2006; Van Roy et al. 2010; Rak et al. 2012). This non biomineralized taxon was first described by Fritsch (1908a,b) on the basis of isolated head shields from the Sandbian of the Letn Formation in the Czech Republic. Fritsch (1908a,b) interpreted the fossils as crinoid larvae, but later Perner (1919) suggested a marrellomorph affinity for the fossils, a view also followed by Chlup (1999a,b).