#lepidocaris

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Lepidocaris rhyniensis, a devonian crustacean from the rhynie chert swims through charophyte algae

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Trailcam: Rhynie Chert biota, fossil deposit known for it's very detailed fossils of plants and invertebrates due to them being petrified by volcanic hot springs, around 410 million years ago in the early Devonian.

[Image description: A series of digital illustrations of a geothermal landscape with blue and orange geothermal pools and clusters of green plants, with brown mountains in the background. In the front of the image, there are 2 plants close up. Image 1: At dawn, a Crussolum centipede, a dark blue centipede with long thin legs, reaches up to climb the plant on the left, which has some small Protacarus crani mites, appearing as small pale dots, climbing on the top. Part of a Leverhulmia mariae myriapod, looking like dark green millipede or centipede, is visible at the base of the second plant. Image 2: As a storm approaches in the day, an orange Palaeocharinus rhyniensis trigonotarbid, a small arachnid that looks like a spider with a flat, segmented abdomen and more small eyes, eats a small bluish white Lepidocaris rhyniensis crustacean, it caught from the edge of a drying up pool. Image 3: At night, Eophalangium sheari, a harvestman, is silhouetted against the sky as it climbs over the plants.]