21167 - Top Rare Anomalocaridid Aegirocassis benmoulai filter feeding appendage Ordovician Mammites nodosoides Nice right mandibular fragment

Nice right mandibular fragment

Platecarpus sp

This specimen has a fresh cut to see its internal texture

Uzbekistan

abundant in the Devonian of North Africa

21167 - Top Rare Anomalocaridid Aegirocassis benmoulai filter feeding appendage Ordovician Mammites nodosoides Nice right mandibular fragmentTop 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