Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Tuzoia! Tuzoia! Tuzoia!

It's official! Right here is the very first  tuzoia ever found in the 515-million-years old Kinzers formation in York County, Pa. !It is the first of this species ever found in Pa! This specimen was scoped and referenced by Professor Roger Thomas of Franklin and Marshall College on Tuesday, November 24th.This was a small marine arthropod; a phyllocarid, that lived in the shallow seas of the lower to middle Cambrian period of geologic time.
The species is tuzoia polleni.

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