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Eurypterids, also known as sea scorpions, were one of the fearsome swimming predators of the Paleozoic seas (545-250 million years ago). This fossil was discovered by a former museum employee, James Kosinksi in 1948 along the Clarion River, Elk County, Pennsylvania. In 1983, English paleontologists
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The eurypterids, or sea scorpions, are an extinct group of chelicerate arthropods. They have an elongated, scorpion-like body that could reach enormous sizes (2.5 to 3 meters!), with a nonmineralizing exoskeleton composed of chitinous material. They are generally found in shallow to very shallow
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This eurypterid trackway is the largest known in the world. The 350 million-year-old fossil impressions record the footprints of an animal estimated to be more than seven and a half feet long. The shallow groove in the center of the trackway was caused by the animal's dragging tail, a possible
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Palmichnium kosinskiorum Briggs & Rolfe, 1983 - sea scorpion tracks in sandstone from the Pennsylvanian of Pennsylvania, USA. (CM 34388, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
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Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Chelicerata, Merostomata, Xiphosura, Eurypterida, Eurypteridae
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Locality: outcrop along Spring Creek-Clarion River, Elk County, northwest-central Pennsylvania, USA
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Derek E.G. Briggs and W.D. Ian Rolfe described and named this specimen Palmichnium kosinskiorum.
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Seen here is the holotype of Palmichnium kosinskiorum, the largest eurypterid trackway known.
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Palmichnium kosinskiorum CM 34388 (Holotype) Briggs & Rolfe, 1983
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indication of its amphibious movement between water and land.
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A Giant Sea Scorpion Trackway from western Pennsylvania
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