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The 5-inch specimen of Mesolimulus walchi preserved at the end of its 18-inch long track from the Jurassic (circa 150 million years ago).
14 x 27 x 12in. (36 x 69 x 1.5cm.)
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An important survival of the final steps of the life of a horseshoe crab. Trace fossils represent the activity of past life, and along with body fossils are important evidence of past behaviour. To find one with the animal that created it is incredibly rare.

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