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Carboniferous Horseshoe crabs


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These are some of my favourite Horseshoe crabs i have collected from the two opencasts in Derbyshire UK.that i have hunted in over the years. (some are in negative form) they range in size from 10mm to 40mm.

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Thank- you for looking at many years and hours of collecting.

John

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Great collection. As with JamieLynn, I love horseshoe crabs...live and fossilized! 

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Another great collection, @t-tree! Your years of collecting have provided you with some lovely rewards. Did you do some prep on a few of these as well? They look great. 

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32 minutes ago, deutscheben said:

 Did you do some prep on a few of these as well? 

 

Only the fourth one i wanted to reveal the telson , usually i leave them as opened.

 

John

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very nice specimens:envy:

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