1.8" Soft-Bodied Marrellomorph (Furca) Fossil - Positive & Negative

Here is a rare and well preserved marrellomorph (Furca mauretanica) from the Upper Fezouata Formation of Morocco. Furca was a soft bodied “marrellomorph” arthropod, somewhat similar to the more common Marrella from the Burgess Shale of Canada. It exhibits very nice detail. Both the positive and negative sides are included.

A paper on these can be found at the link below.

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

Marrellomorphs are a group of arthropods known from the Cambrian to the Early Devonian. They lacked mineralized hard parts, so are only known from areas of exceptional preservation, limiting their fossil distribution.