The Ordovician fossil was discovered in the Wenchang Formation of Anji County in Zhejiang Province, South China.
The species most likely thrived in deep water at depths of several hundred meters. The study highlights this newly described species as a rare find, as only 12 Ordovician eurypterids have been found and documented globally. According to the research, eurypterids are an extinct group of Paleozoic chelicerate arthropods.of eurypterid species that, million years ago, occupied parts of the Gondwana supercontinent. The eurypterids appeared for the first time during the Ordovician geological period.
This site also yielded fossils of other marine life that once thrived in the deep sea, such as sponges. "The specimen is preserved, together with diverse sponges, graptolites and occasional nautiloids, in a 10 m thick shale of marine deep-water setting," noted the study.An early form of eurypterids , Archopterus anjiensis n. gen. n. sp., is described from the uppermost Ordovician Wenchang Formation of Anji County, Zhejiang Province, South China.
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