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The last 30 days have been great. Not the largest numbers of fossils, but high quality. I went to a highway median lower Eagle Ford exposure in South Grand Prairie, Texas, and another nearby Tarrant formation exposure on 3 occasions in the last few weeks. I have a lot of firsts from these excursions: unknown gastropod absolute unit of an ammonite, a 5.1 pound acanthoceras amphibolum with huge spikes concretion with conlinoceras tarrantense with original shell and septarian veins mosasaur vertebra partial (?) lobster in a pre-broken concretion metiococeras ammonite (rough one but my first) numerous conlinoceras tarrantense ammonites 2-4 inches diameter
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Very brief update on my first lobster discovered in my best “Tarrant formation” lower eagle ford spot a few weeks ago. I very carefully knocked some matrix off using a jackhammer (dremel 290, loud and not easy to control) and my friend Mercer helped me with a brief aluminum oxide+quartz blast with the air abrasive while I watched. More is starting to be revealed. It might take me a long time because I’m also rotating through a bunch of big echinoids and ammonites I’m prepping as well, and I’m doing more and more of it on my own.
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Calling all lobster aficionados! I collected these lobsters from what I believe to be the baculites compressus zone/upper campanian Pierre shale in western South Dakota. I'm trying to get a specific ID for these fellas. I've read about Paleonephrops Browni and Linuparus Canadensis being found in my area, but neither really seems to fit with these. Please excuse my unfinished prep work on the double, it's still in progress.
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Howdy all, Just bought this crustacean concretion from the Atlantic Highlands of New Jersey. The seller has labeled it as hoploparia and I'm hoping for confirmation on that.
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Another crab hunt in the Britton Shale of Dallas 4/24/24
Gcurtis45 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
After yesterday’s (4/23/24) hunt I decided to go back today after work. Let me tell you all, it did not disappoint! In total I found ~36 fossil decapods. 23 crabs, 12 shrimp, and “1” lobster. This brings my total cont from today and yesterday to ~49 decapod fossils. Also to note is the scale of the cutting mat in the background, every square is 1/2 inch for scale In regards to the “one” lobster it is in two pieces that might or might not belong to each other, they were found in close proximity to one another and have similar mineralization color and the size of the tail section could fit a lobster of this size. This specimen looks most like Linuparus grimmeri, I have two other examples of this species form much higher in the Britton shale, one found by me and one by my father, another note on this specimen is the size of the mandibles on the under side. Next up on the list is the best preserved and looking shrimp fossil of the day, I don’t have an ID on these guys yet, if anyone has any ideas please let me know. In all the only thing missing is the tail fan, it still has its head, tail, and even some leges and its two claws/pincers intact, in order shown is the top, bottom, left, and right sides. Now for more crabs, a good number of crabs found on this hunt had bits and pieces of their underside, legs, and claws here are the nice ones. Crab with imprints of the claws and partial legs. Another crab in similar shape but with a little more of the legs on the underside. Another crab with a portion of the underside of the crab carapace showing. Here is the largest crab found in the past two days, and with a good portion of the underside still preserved and in ok shape! Now here is something I was not expecting at all today, a small sharks tooth, not something I’ve never found but it is now the oldest I have collected. To round everything out I also coveted a small Inoceramid clam half that was in good condition for the sight, as well as some larger Baculites for the strata that I know of, and a set of two Gastropoda and two clams. This will provost be the last hint for the week, we have some rain forecasted for the end of the week and the weekend so here’s to some good erosion.
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Crustacean Lobster Homarus sp. Glen Rose Formation
JamieLynn posted a gallery image in Member Collections
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Crustaceans
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I wanted to share these two lobster fossils I've found. The prepwork was done by my friend Hannah. Both nodules were split and prepped back together. Two Lobster claws and random body parts from Kettleness. A beautiful lobster claw from Saltwick Bay. There is also another claw preserved under still in the rock.
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Hi guys, found this over the summer from bed 17 of the atherfield clay near atherfield point (not the usual bed where the common lobsters come from! Much rarer and bigger) and was wondering if anyone could tell me the species, thanks ! (I just got it prepped and am considering entering it for fossil of the month.
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Wondering if anyone could help get species identification for these 4 fossils. Thanks for reading
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Imagine my surprise when I cracked open a beach pebble last week and these two beautifully preserved 180m year old lobster claws were revealed. I was expecting an ammonite but these ancient claws will do. Eryma Species
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Lyme Regis crustacean fossil- Which stratum would this originate from?
Paleoworld-101 posted a topic in Questions & Answers
This fossil crustacean was collected in England on the foreshore between Lyme Regis and Charmouth, amongst the algae-covered large boulders that are exposed at low tide. It looks to be in some kind of phosphatic nodule. The cream-colour of the matrix is quite unlike the dark Jurassic rocks that make this region famous. I was thinking it is unlikely to be from the Jurassic layers, and probably originates from the overlying Cretaceous sequences higher up in the cliffs? Both Gault Clay and Upper Greensand (Albian in age) unconformably sit above the Jurassic beds. Does anyone know which of these deposits are known to produce crustacean specimens with this type of preservation and lithology in the Lyme Regis area? Thanks for any input!
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This is from a basement construction project in southwest corner of Wisconsin. We literally dug out a hundreds of thousands of fossils, 4' underground. They were in a 3-8" thick layer of concrete along with a type of brown sand/dirt full of other fossil parts. Out of the 6 hills of earth approx 12' high each, only the first hill is dirt. The other 5 are nothing but fossil's! I'm completely green to the fossil world so I'm doing my best here lol. In this particular rock I noticed several small 1" lobster things. Then I noticed what looked like bigger legs. One leg goes through a hole and out the other side (pretty cool) Ask me anything else and I'll answer as well as I'm able. Thanks. I'm sure I'll have endless questions as we pick through this rubble.
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I found this listed as a cretaceous lobster from the Kiowa Formation in Kansas. I didn't have much success finding anything similar with some quick research, do any of you guys know what exactly we're looking at here?
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From the album: Cretaceous
Hoploparia gabbi Partial Lobster (just under 3.5 inches long) Upper Cretaceous Wenonah Formation Matewan Group Ramanessin Brook Holmdel, N.J. A gift from Ralph Johnson- an unprepared specimen in a concretion- later, partially prepared by this writer.-
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It was fun doing this short video. Enjoy RB https://youtu.be/ySMs3aLz-2s
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Sifting Big Brook today and this came up from a deep dig. It has the look of a Lobster claw or Shrimp claw, which are usually only half inch in length or so. This specimen is roughly 3 inches long and about 1-3/4 in diameter at thickest and 1-inch at thinnest point. Its actually pretty heavy. There's noticeable ridges on each side near the edge and looks like little nubs almost like on lobster claws. Cretaceous era fossils normally in the stream. What could it be?
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From the album: North Sulphur River
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Mud-lobster fossil with soft tissues preserved. Can I please ask some questions?
MHAN posted a topic in Fossil ID
Here is my small collection of fossil mud-lobster. I know they are very very common but still find they are fascinating to look at. They are all from Gunn point , Northern Territory (Australia). From the last photo, I can see some soft tissues exposed and preserved. Can I please ask, under what circumstances, the soft tissues can be preserved? Because I am not sure of its age (probably 17000??), I don’t know if they are fossil or just sub fossil? Thanks in advance ️
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Hello all, I found the following (possible) Hoploparia sp. tail, abdomen section, and partial claw/arm on a recent trip in NJ. I haven't seen too many of these posted so I thought I would share. I also included a video to show how much is exposed on each side. Thanks for viewing. VID_178761207_233632_277.mp4
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I had already started working on this one before I left for Canada, so I decided to take it along and finish it up in my spare time. Now it's completed. A Coeloma sp. crab which I found 10 years ago in the Oligocene deposits at Mogenstrup beach on Limfjord, Denmark.
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Despite the heat I managed to get a solo trip down to the Ramanessin yesterday afternoon. I was hoping after the rains this past week things might be a little stirred up. On my last post I joked about the tiny super worn mosasaur tooth breaking the curse... and I am happy to report I was right. Little bit of everything this trip (small squares are 1/4 inch): Big mosasaur tooth, worn, but it made me very happy Pretty nice little lobster/shrimp Partial ratfish plate Coral/sponge? Crow shark tooth. My biggest of the day had a busted up tip, but this medium sized one was nice
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Hello All, I came across this fossil at a local rock and gem store and I'm having a go at preparing it. Apparently it is from Indonesia and I believe is a Thalassina, although with the spindle like legs I haven't seen anything that looks like an exact match. Here's my question; the fossil is covered with a sticky coarse sandstone, and I'm wondering how much of the matrix I should leave between joints in the tail and between the legs on the main body. I'm not sure if removing too much matrix will just cause the fossil to fall apart, but I suspect it might. Has anyone had experience with these fossils before and be able to lend a rookie some advice? Cheers, Ryan
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Found several years ago in Big Brook, NJ. Any help IDing would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. Hope it isn't considered rude to call people into a post this way, but going to call on @Trevor for his opinion.
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I don't think I posted Larry yet, but here he is! Meet Larry the Lobster! He didn't look much like a crab. He looked more like the Lobster from sponge bob. The lobster was buff and this one looks pretty buff to me!
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Hi Everyone, Found this at the NSR last weekend. I would really like to remove some of the grey matrix but that is beyond my skill set. Do not wan to ruin any of it. So, how would I go about stabilizing it? I use clear Elmers glue for the bones and some ammonites but not sure about soaking this in that mixture. Any help is appreciated.
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