Giant Eurypterid Body Pillow – Paleontological Research Institution

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Eurypterus remipesSilurian eurypterid Limited quantities available!  If you would like to buy multiple units, please purchase each unit separately to ensure our shipping calculator works correctly. Eurypterids are an extinct group of arthropods; their closest living relatives are probably horseshoe crabs. Though known.

Eurypterus remipes
Silurian eurypterid

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If you would like to buy multiple units, please purchase each unit separately to ensure our shipping calculator works correctly.

Eurypterids are an extinct group of arthropods; their closest living relatives are probably horseshoe crabs. Though known by the name ‘sea scorpions,’ they were not actually scorpions. They lived in aquatic (marine, brackish, and freshwater) and terrestrial environments from the Ordovician through the Permian Period. Eurypterids came in various sizes, ranging from as small as a few inches to as large as 9 feet in length.

Eurypterus remipes is New York’s state fossil, and is abundant in certain layers of Silurian-age rocks.

Length: 5 feet

Ancient finds

The Delaware Museum of Nature and Science just finished their full renovation and installed a Dryptosaurus skeletal mount. This is one of the few dinosaurs that is known from the state.

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