#chelicerata

Thomas A. Hegna, Ph.DThomashegna@ecoevo.social
2023-01-06

Any ideas? It looks vaguely copepod-y to me (which is sort of an admission of ignorance), but others have suggested that it might be some sort of water mite. Both of these identities require that the creature was somehow replaced with silica. #crustacea #chelicerata #acari #copepoda #cryptozoology #arthropoda #borneo
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SEM images of a silicified microarthropod with antennae?

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