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Description: | Sea scorpions like this were fairly common in the shallow estuaries (the tidal area of rivers) that covered southern Scotland in the late Silurian period. Growing to a length of over 2 metres, they must have been fearsome predators. They were first discovered in the 19th century by Scottish quarrymen who called them 'Seraphim' in the belief that they represented fossilised angels! | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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