 The ambulatory legs (pereopods) end in claws (chelae).The fossil record of spiny lobsters has been extended by the discovery in 1995 of a 110-million-year-old fossil near El Espiñal in Chiapas, Mexico.Workers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico have named the fossil "Palinurus palaecosi", and report that it is closest to members of the genus "Palinurus" currently living off the coasts of Africa.