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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 .

:D

it is so hard to work on the small ones without having to do some type of touch up, nice job.

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this pincer has had work done but some things are worth repairing. keep up the nice work

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it is so hard to work on the small ones without having to do some type of touch up, nice job.

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this pincer has had work done but some things are worth repairing. keep up the nice work

Thankyou Dave, take a look on my webpage, there are very little nice crabs, and difficult to find and prep.

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Hello boys,

While I'm thinking how re building this post (mainly photos) I will tell you a little love crab story.

In august of 2008 I was running more than 4000 kms for to get this one for a good friend.

Well wen I got it I sent it to the US, but what a surprise, few weeks ago I found him abandoned on the Ebay lands... :o

Ashamed, inmediatly I did recovered him, and now he is back at home for forever.

Here I will care and love him :wub: , and he will can play with their friends.

End of the story

Have a nice day

:)

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Dear friends,

Congratulations......you have truly nice specimens. I want to support this crab´s fever forum with some pics. Let me introduce you a friend of mine called "shy boy". .....look the face behind the arms!!!!

It is a Calappa, not species name got yet (pliocene material, from USA).

Eureka

:)

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Another truly rare crab....Graptocarcinus texanus from Europe(upper cretaceous). Found many years ago (80 ´s).

Cheers,

Eureka

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Dear friends,

Congratulations......you have truly nice specimens. I want to support this crab´s fever forum with some pics. Let me introduce you a friend of mine called "shy boy". .....look the face behind the arms!!!!

It is a Calappa, not species name got yet (pliocene material, from USA).

Eureka

:)

Thanks Eureka for your support, but this Calappa está al revés ??? :D:D:P:D

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Another truly rare crab....Graptocarcinus texanus from Europe(upper cretaceous). Found many years ago (80 ´s).

Cheers,

Eureka

Wow, this one is another matter... it must (deserves) to be professionally cleaned and housed in the Museum...

Scientist needs types like this one. :)

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Dear MB,

Thanks a lot, and you are right, the specimen is upside down...... I did not reliase on that big mis-prepping. You learn day after day.....

On the other hand, regarding to the Grapto, I am 100% agree with you...... Luckily, the museum whose county belongs the specimen, counts on several specimens 20 times much better than the one I have.

Thanks again,

Eureka B)

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On the other hand, regarding to the Grapto, I am 100% agree with you...... Luckily, the museum whose county belongs the specimen, counts on several specimens 20 times much better than the one I have.

Thanks again,

Eureka B)

Nice to hear that, anyway, a complet ventral Dynomenid is always an important find ;)

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Hello boys,

While I'm thinking how re building this post (mainly photos) I will tell you a little love crab story.

In august of 2008 I was running more than 4000 kms for to get this one for a good friend.

Well wen I got it I sent it to the US, but what a surprise, few weeks ago I found him abandoned on the Ebay lands... :o

Ashamed, inmediatly I did recovered him, and now he is back at home for forever.

Here I will care and love him :wub: , and he will can play with their friends.

End of the story

Have a nice day

:)

As I promised you, here is the crab finally prepped :)

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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 .

:D

That turned out very nice.

Seth

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Hi people, yes, I know... so long without posting there but here we go

Today I' have flu so I'm at home, and obviously I'm playing with the crabs and opening boxes and drawers... and take a look at this Periacanthus that I got from Italy Usually I thought that it wa a badly preserved Periacanthus horridus

But you know, when you have flu you have more attention and I have noticed that the posterior margin of this crab havent the sharped spines that P.horridus have.

I have prepped a little bit its back, and WOW, now I have a Periacanthus dallagoi Beschin, De angeli et. al. 2005

I'm very happy, I have at home the FOUR Periacanthus species known until this moment, so: P.horridus, P.dalloni, P.ramosus and P.dallagoi.

You can compare it with the posterior margin of horridus.

I'm glad

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Hi people, yes, I know... so long without posting there but here we go

Today I' have flu so I'm at home, and obviously I'm playing with the crabs and opening boxes and drawers... and take a look at this Periacanthus that I got from Italy Usually I thought that it wa a badly preserved Periacanthus horridus

But you know, when you have flu you have more attention and I have noticed that the posterior margin of this crab havent the sharped spines that P.horridus have.

I have prepped a little bit its back, and WOW, now I have a Periacanthus dallagoi Beschin, De angeli et. al. 2005

I'm very happy, I have at home the FOUR Periacanthus species known until this moment, so: P.horridus, P.dalloni, P.ramosus and P.dallagoi.

You can compare it with the posterior margin of horridus.

I'm glad

Hey people,

Well, finally this crabs isn't P.dallagoi but a new ssp.from the Priabonian.

I got this evening the confirmation from the autor and the paper is in press

:)

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