Cruziana / Rusophycus
Vendor: Fossil Soup
SKU Number: SQ4501224
Rusophycus and Cruziana, most likely associated with a trilobite, from the Lower Ordovician, Katoua Formation of Ouzina, Morocco.
The trackway is clear and well defined. A moment in time as an early Ordovician trilobite wandered along the sea flow moving sediment while possibly in search of food. The trackway leads to where a Rusophycus is located. The Rusophycus is very well defined, showing in detail where the trilobite rested for a while - maybe while eating - before once again moving off to somewhere we will never know.
Full dimensions are listed below.
Vendor: Fossil Soup
SKU Number: SQ4501224
Rusophycus and Cruziana, most likely associated with a trilobite, from the Lower Ordovician, Katoua Formation of Ouzina, Morocco.
The trackway is clear and well defined. A moment in time as an early Ordovician trilobite wandered along the sea flow moving sediment while possibly in search of food. The trackway leads to where a Rusophycus is located. The Rusophycus is very well defined, showing in detail where the trilobite rested for a while - maybe while eating - before once again moving off to somewhere we will never know.
Full dimensions are listed below.
Vendor: Fossil Soup
SKU Number: SQ4501224
Rusophycus and Cruziana, most likely associated with a trilobite, from the Lower Ordovician, Katoua Formation of Ouzina, Morocco.
The trackway is clear and well defined. A moment in time as an early Ordovician trilobite wandered along the sea flow moving sediment while possibly in search of food. The trackway leads to where a Rusophycus is located. The Rusophycus is very well defined, showing in detail where the trilobite rested for a while - maybe while eating - before once again moving off to somewhere we will never know.
Full dimensions are listed below.
Additional Information
Cruziana is a trace fossil consisting of elongate, bilobed, approximately bilaterally symmetrical burrows, usually preserved along bedding planes. It is found in marine and freshwater sediments.
Rusophycus is a trace fossil ichnogenus allied to Cruziana. Rusophycus is the resting trace, recording the outline of the tracemaker; Cruziana is made when the organism moved. The sculpture of Rusophycus may reveal the approximate number of legs that the tracemaker had, although striations (scratchmarks) from a single leg may overlap or be repeated. Both Rusophycus and Cruziana are typically associated with trilobites but can also be made by other arthropods.
