MB Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 MB,I am glad to see that several of your crab specimens are prepared with the Telson showing instead of the Carapace. While it might be strange to most, when I have prepared my crabs, I usually only prep the Carapace of one specimen and the Telsons of the others. I find them more interesting to look at. The Carapaces can be uninteresting/featureless. However, I should also say that most of the crabs I've found have been legless. Hi NAL, Ventral sides of crabs are very importants, really most than the carapaces features. In the past only de carapaces features placed the fossil crabs in a family or other ones. Now, most of the paleontologist are also biologist or are in very close contact with they, and learn that more of the ventral and abdominal features are more important for the determination and the familiy placement of fossil and extant crabs. Now, a lot of fossil crabs were reviseds with the ventral point of view, and removed of their original placement. For this reason I'm crazy replacing my photo's crabs in my web after that each new work have been published. I will put you an example, with this photo of the ventral side of this little fairly fossil crab and similar other ones, this crab specie was removed from Goneplacoidea superfamily to the Portunoidea(2008). First Ommatocarcinus zariquieyi, now Viaophthalmus zariquieyi, Via,1959 I will be happy seeing photos of your crabs, for me, are importants, with or without legs. Have a good day. 2 http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Hello, Crabs finds lately, 30 minutes from home type. Middle Miocene. Enjoy http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 More nice looking Crabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micropterus101 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I think I just messed myself after seeing those display cases. Darn those are cool! KOF, Jason fossil crabs website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 Last week end, sunday morning, not crabs in outcrops But at home, boried, I saw a little chunk of rock (5 or 6 cms....) who was the matrix of a little cretaceous crab claw, and broke it with a little hammer... 3 crabs inside: Eomunidopsis Plagiophthalmus ? Goniodromites I was happy the rest of sunday... http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CURT Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Hello guys and gals, I dont want to tire you with repair or preparation techniques, but althought I'm overseas, I have experimented with the west pacific coast concretions, and when the fossils is for my own collection, I dont have any problem with the reparations or restaurations, here is one of them . Wish I could do that. I'm like Tim Taylor from Home Improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 Wish I could do that. I'm like Tim Taylor from Home Improvement. By luck Jim Taylor don't collect fossils... http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted April 12, 2008 Author Share Posted April 12, 2008 the rest... http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossisle Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 the rest... WOW All in one little rock, way to go MB Cephalopods rule!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 Hello all, Not giant crabs this time, either the great and wild crab trip, just playing with my crabs boxes, I find a little concretion from US Pacific Eocene, several hours of minimalist work later, here the results, a nice Palaeopinnixa rotundus... BUT near its left arm, what you can see? another even tiny crab carapace, outline and regions may tell us that this is different than Palaeopinnixa, but beeing bot from the same concretion and formation, I leave it as Pinnotheridae like Palaeopinnixa. enjoy 1 http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Cool Crabs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 Cool Crabs http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossisle Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 MB Looks like a baby!! The concretion had an unfortunate break but your work has made it a keeper Nice to have two in one small package Cephalopods rule!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 Hello people Not xtreme fossil trip this week end either, for first time after eleven months, it is raining here, everyboy at home, it is a perfect day to prep fossils and uploading few photos on my web. Here are another one fossils crabs preppeds yesterday and today. I have add a new album on my web, another Superfamily: Hexapodoidea, with several photos: http://groups.msn.com/MBFossilcrab/hexapod...886.msnw?Page=1 Enjoy http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted April 26, 2008 Author Share Posted April 26, 2008 Hi to all, another placid saturday photographing ventral side of Porunid crabs for a work, but I find the time to finish another cretaceous crab, that I posted in my web: http://groups.msn.com/MBFossilcrab/homoloi...mp;PhotoID=1562 enjoy 1 http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Beautiful Crabs, you must spend a lot of time prepping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 Beautiful Crabs, you must spend a lot of time prepping. but not so much as I wanted http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted May 3, 2008 Author Share Posted May 3, 2008 Crabs attacks !!!! Hello everybody, the fossil crabs preparation it is not an activity exempt of risk. I'm not talking about risked trips on the creeks and bla bla bla... but sometimes, those bugs are very perverse and aggressive, they can attack you with irreversible results.... Take care... http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Wow, most cool too! I thought you were joking at first, as I don't know much about crabs, and didn't realize they even had teeth. I usually never hear it mentioned. I looked it up and found a fossil pdf with pics of the claws and teeth. Yours are in great shape too, better than the ones in the article. Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 Wow, most cool too! I thought you were joking at first, as I don'tknow much about crabs, and didn't realize they even had teeth. I usually never hear it mentioned. I looked it up and found a fossil pdf with pics of the claws and teeth. Yours are in great shape too, better than the ones in the article. Hi Roz, what type of pdf you found? Crabs are very dangerous, time ago one of them bit me, I suffered a mutation and I was transformed in Spidercrab , later another mutation converted me in MB (RB knows my sad story... ) Now, I can't stop to looking for crabs, eating crabs, prepping crabs... http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 Mutated from a crab bite. Well, that explains it all! I am leaving the pdf link for you below.. Fossil Crab PDF Here Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted May 5, 2008 Author Share Posted May 5, 2008 Mutated from a crab bite. Well, that explains it all! I am leaving the pdf link for you below.. Fossil Crab PDF Here Thankyou very much Roz http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted June 14, 2008 Author Share Posted June 14, 2008 Hi everybody, I have upload more crabs species in my web. Enjoy http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted June 28, 2008 Author Share Posted June 28, 2008 I'm arranging my PC and I found these photos when I went back from holidays two years ago... I hope repeat it this summer http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 very nice!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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