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  • Eocarpilius carolinensis

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    Taxonomy

    Crab Carapace

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Arthropoda
    Class: Malacostraca
    Order: Decopoda
    Family: Carpiliidae
    Genus: Eocarpilius
    Species: Eocarpilius carolinensis
    Author Citation Blow & Manning, 1996

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Cenozoic
    Period: Paleogene
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Eocene
    International Age: Priabonian

    Stratigraphy

    Castle Hayne Formation
    Comfort Member

    Provenance

    Collector: Don Rideout
    Date Collected: 05/19/2017
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Length: 27 mm
    Width: 38 mm

    Location

    Martin Marietta Quarry
    New Hanover County
    North Carolina
    United States

    Comments

    This nice small carapace is one of the more common crabs from the Castle Hayne. This one has much of the original shell intact making it very special. 

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    Plax

    don't recall prominent pustules on mine. Beautiful specimen!

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    Fossildude19

    Fossildude19

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    Pretty little crab! 

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    FossilDAWG

    FossilDAWG

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    Sweet crab!  My one specimen also lacks pustules, but I assume it's just a little weathered and yours is pristine.

     

    Don

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    sixgill pete

    sixgill pete

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    1 hour ago, Plax said:

    don't recall prominent pustules on mine. Beautiful specimen!

     

    8 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said:

    Sweet crab!  My one specimen also lacks pustules, but I assume it's just a little weathered and yours is pristine.

     

    Don

     

    Both of my E. carolinensis have pustules, this one is the best of the two, although the smaller one.

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