Description

Unusuropode castroi Duarte & Santos, 1962

Late Cretaceous

Gara Sbaa Member, Akrabou Formation

Gara Sbaa, Morocco

11mm positive marine isopod

Crustacean, Isopod.

Isopods belong to an order of crustaceans that dates back to the Carboniferous Period and still live today.  They are uncommon across the fossil record tending to be found mostly in certain deposits.  Biologists have studied modern deepwater ones the size of a lobster but most are small like the “pill bugs” you found in your grandparents’ garden.