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Hoploparia gabbi lobster from the late Cretaceous of NJ


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Here's a nice specimen of the lobster Hoplolaria gabbi from the late Cretaceous of New Jersey.  When found it was almost completely obscured by rather tough concretionary matrix, but I knew it may be quite complete underneath, so I brought it to Ralph Johnson who kindly prepped it for me.  With his great experience, he of course did a wonderful job.  

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Nice find!

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Happy hunting,

Mason

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This is an amazing and fairly rare piece!   :wub:

 

Great find - thanks for showing us!. 

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Fantastic. What a great find.

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Fantastic!  And a Ralph Johnson prep to boot.  

It's hard to remember why you drained the swamp when your surrounded by alligators.

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That is really cool!!!   New Jersey?  I didnt know these can be found there?  Learn something new everyday

 

RB

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That is an incredible specimen!!!! Congratulations. Ralph is the only one I would have trusted with it. Thanks for sharing.

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Thanks everyone.  Ralph deserves most of the credit, but he also got another Hoploparia for the museum as well.  (;  It surprisingly turned out nearly as nice as this one.  He worked even greater magic on it.   The cephalothorax had exploded into dozens of fragments before I found it.  I really didn't think I was able to recover all the pieces, but it turns out I did.  I should have taken a picture of it as well.  Next time!

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 Its about 4" 

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Congratulations on finding it and on recognizing what a prize you had. Thanks for sharing it. Wonderful.

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Amazing fossil!  :wub:  Have you posted it in Collections yet?  It's certainly worthy.

 

Don

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