Double Crab Concretion !!!

[RJB]

My wife came into my office the other day and said "here is a crab you wanted me to put in a safe place"   Wow!!!  I was flabbergasted!  This was 12 years ago.  This is a very rare double crab in a concretion.  These are Orbitoplax weaveri found in Oregon in the Looking Glass Formation and Eocene in age.   Really really tuff to get a double crab! 

 

RB

[Ludwigia]

Great! Looks like they're riding piggyback.

[RJB]

Thanks Ludwigia.  A purty rare double. 

 

RB

[aerogrower]

Wow! Thank you wife!

[fossisle]

Cool

[ynot]

Very nice!!

Can't wait to see it fully prepped out!

[FossilDudeCO]

Gorgeous ron!

[jpc]

Wow... Excellent find.  

Mating?

[RJB]

Thanks folks.  Quite happy with this one.  Been a long time since ive seen it.  Its now in the fossil crab display cabinet.

 

RB

[sdsnl]

Cool, are you gonna prep it more? If they are mating this could be a triple concretion. The female needs to molt before mating; she will get under the male and be protected by him while molting, and when she's done, she'll push the molt a little in front of them, then flip to face him to mate while still under him. The second part of this video shows the behavior:

 

[HamptonsDoc]

Very cool! Please post pics if you fully resto it!

[-Andy-]

Amazing!

 

It does look like mating (or perhaps it's the hopeless romantic in me).

[aplomado]

On 3/25/2017 at 4:45 PM, Ludwigia said:

Great! Looks like they're riding piggyback.

Umm, that's not what I thought when I first saw it!

[Ludwigia]

2 hours ago, aplomado said:

Umm, that's not what I thought when I first saw it!

Naughty, naughty

[joshuajbelanger]

Seriously, I think you have caught a glimpse of crab coitice immortalized in stone!  Saucy!

[ynot]

Mommy, why is that cow on the back of the other cow?

The one cow is helping the other cow to see over the bushes.

[RJB]

Some funny stuff for sure. 

 

RB

[aplomado]

What a way to go...