Well now, would you have a look at this bonnie wee beastie. This braw Scottish lad is Ceratiocaris papilio (Salter in Murchison, 1859), a pod shrimp from the Silurian mudstones of the Kip Burn Formation in Scotland’s Midland Valley. About 430 million years ago, he would have paddled through warm rising seas teeming with crinoid meadows, coral reefs, brachiopods, trilobites, and some of
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