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Mecochirus longimanatus SCHLOTHEIM, 1820
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This is a good example of the longarm shrip Mecochirus longimanatus from the lithographic limestone of Eichstätt. This Mecochirus longimanatus has a interesting feature to offer.
It comes along with its death track. It is easy imaginable how the Mecochirus fled backwards in order to escape suffocation.
The "Solnhofen - Limestone" is one of the rare fossil locality’s where tracks and the creature that made them fossilized together
The fossil Mecochirus itself is about 180 mm long
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| | Location: | Eichstätt, Solnhofen, Germany | |
| Size of plate: | about 330 x 225 mm |
| Age: | Upper Jurasic , Malm zeta (about. 150 Mill. years) |
