OzNP Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Hi guys, I have recently found what I presume is a fossil crab on a beach in the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia. I’m wondering if anyone knows any more details about it, age, etc? Thanks! NP 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 @MB @Doctor Mud @RJB @mamlambo Welcome to the Forum. Great find - hopefully the experts will chime in. 1 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth_ Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Welcome to TFF! What an awesome find! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Welcome, and woooooow that's such a cool find! 1 Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caterpillar Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Looks like Podophthalmus vigil 2 1 2 http://www.paleotheque.fr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike from North Queensland Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 I have looked for information a few times but not much on the web. the fossil are only recent possibly in the thousands or so years old so most likely still alive today. That said looks like a male blue swimmer or sand crab. nice find The crustacean fossils are found anywhere along the coast and emerge from the mangrove areas and are mostly found after dredging in the area 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 "Podophthalmus vigil has previously been reported from the fossil record from Pliocene deposits of Java (Martin, 1883); Pleistocene rocks of Celebes (de Man, 1904); Pleistocene deposits of Taiwan (Hu and Tao, 1996); Pleistocene deposits of Guam (Kesling, 1958) and from the Pleistocene Ryukyu Group, Okinawa-jima, Japan (Karasawa, Nohara, and Shimoji, 1995). Podophthalmus vigil is known from Recent occurrences in Japan, the Indo-Pacific, the Red Sea, and Apra Harbor in Guam (Sakai, 1976; Ng, 1998; G. Paulay, pers. commun.)... ...Recent members of the genus are known from Japan (Sakai, 1976); thus, the genus appears to have evolved and dispersed within the Indo-Pacific region as early as the Pliocene." Schweitzer, C.E., Scott-Smith, P.R., Ng, P.K. 2002. New Occurrences of Fossil Decapod Crustaceans (Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from Late Pleistocene Deposits of Guam, United States Territory. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 29:25-49 PDF LINK 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Exactly, as Caterpillar and Piranha said, Macrophthalmus vigil 1 http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzNP Posted July 9, 2022 Author Share Posted July 9, 2022 Thanks guys, Any ideas about age ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 1 hour ago, OzNP said: Thanks guys, Any ideas about age ?? Coming from Queensland, not older than Holocene 1 http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Welcome to TFF! What a great fossil to start off your joining the forum with! Absolutely astounding that you were able to find it in this condition, as I can imagine the legs would've worn away pretty quickly had you not found it! Knowing how @mamlambo finds his crabs, it'd be pretty unusual to find one incompletely encased by a nodule. But I must say that it's also very surprising to me that the age of this fossil is as young as Holocene! I wouldn't have guessed this level of mineralisation would be possible in such a short timespan...! 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamlambo Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Very cool fossil crab @OzNP! It's in great condition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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