Show us your shrimps

[Bobby Rico]

Show us your shrimp fossil. A silly little thread or It could be shrimply fun.

A birthday gift of  MrsR this stunning and rare Carboniferous Muirhouse / Granton Fossilised Shrimp Bed, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Gorgeous example that has some exceptional Crangopsis specimens preserved upon it. Lower Carboniferous, some 359 to 323 million years ago.

I think it is worthwhile posting on the forum it a beauty. 
 

cheers Bobby 

 

 

 

 

[marguy]

1 hour ago, Bobby Rico said:

Crangnopsis

I was curious when I discovered this magnificent set of fossil shrimps and after a little research I read that the spelling is Crangopsis (but this is a detail!!!) thank you for sharing these photos, and belatedly, happy birthday.

[automech]

Amazing! 

[Bobby Rico]

48 minutes ago, marguy said:

Crangopsis

Hey I am dyslexic  but thank you I appreciate any help. I change it now .Cheers Bobby 

Edited February 28, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Neanderthal Shaman]

Some of my better Oligocene ghost shrimp from the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State. I have a lot at this point, but these 3 are my best.

 

[connorp]

Here's one of my best Mazon Creek shrimp (Acanthotelson stimpsoni).

[Missourian]

That shrimp plate is absolutely gorgeous, a work of art.

 

Unidentified shrimp

Muncie Creek Shale, Kasimovian/Missourian Stage, Pennsylvanian

Kansas City metro, USA

 

 

Under the microscope. A couple 'juveniles' are on the right:

 

 

Juveniles, zoomed in:

 

[Missourian]

Another Muncie Creek shrimp:

 

[Mioplosus_Lover24]

Here's my shrimp from Lebanon! I've found about half a dozen shrimp in the Greenriver Formation, but none of them were good splits and require some serious prep work... yippie. I've got a beautiful Carpopenaeus on a frankly gorgeous piece of matrix. 

 

I also have a much rarer Sculda syriaca mantis shrimp! 

[Bobby Rico]

16 hours ago, Neanderthal Shaman said:

ghost shrimp

Hi thanks for sharing nice specimens . I had look up ghost shrimps, the are interesting creatures. 

[Bobby Rico]

15 hours ago, connorp said:

Mazon Creek shrimp (Acanthotelson stimpsoni).

Thank you , very cool one day I would like to add one to my small MC collection. 

[Bobby Rico]

15 hours ago, Missourian said:

That shrimp plate is absolutely gorgeous, a work of art.

 

Thanks very much it is pretty nice. 
 

until MrsR got me this plate , I didn’t realise how successful  creature  shrimp have been . Thanks for adding to my thread.

[Bobby Rico]

5 hours ago, Mioplosus_Lover24 said:

Here's my shrimp from Lebanon!

Snap I had one for a day and then gave it away to Doren because he had wanted one for years.

A Carpopenaeus from the Lebanon, Upper Cretaceous .

 

[Bobby Rico]

Any more takers please and thank you . I myself don’t have anything else.

Edited April 1, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[caterpillar]

Hoploparia catalunica from upper santonian of southwest France

 

[Missourian]

Unidentified

Stark Shale, Kasimovian/Missourian, Pennsylvanian

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Nice thread, Bobby, and the incomparable Mrs. R does it again!

Wow, what an amazing specimen.

[rocket]

nice one, big, from Solnhofen/Germany, just in prep

 

 

Edited April 13, 2023 by rocket

[jpc]

Here are some Callianassid (ghost shrimp) claws from a construction site in Casper, Wyoming.  These are Tate Museum specimens, not mine.  Cody Shale, late Cretaceous.  Scale is in mm. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 13, 2023 by jpc

[FossilNerd]

I don’t have anything to contribute Bobby, but I have to say that Mrs. R did good in getting you that present (as she always does!). Beautiful! 
 

Plenty of other awesome specimens shared by others as well. Thanks for starting the thread!

[Bobby Rico]

18 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Nice thread, Bobby, and the incomparable Mrs. R does it again!

Wow, what an amazing specimen.

Cheers Adam I agree and I never seen Granton Shrimp Bed Stuff on the market before. All the best Bobby 

[Bobby Rico]

15 hours ago, FossilNerd said:

Plenty of other awesome specimens shared by others as well. Thanks for starting the thread!

Cheers Wayne glad you enjoyed the thread.  

[Bobby Rico]

@Missourian nice specimen  @rocket Beautiful and interesting to compare the black -light images . 
 

@jpc thank you adding some lovely specimens. We honoured to to see stuff from your museum.
 

Cheers all Bobby 

[jpc]

2 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

 

@jpc thank you adding some lovely specimens. We honoured to to see stuff from your museum.
 

Cheers all Bobby 

Thanks for the comments, Bobby R.  This site was brought to our attention by a citizen collector who came in shortly after I started working here showing some cool fossil he had found at a construction site in town (which is completely underlain by Cretaceous Cody Shale).  Among them were two sets of these things.   The Cody Shale is known for ammonites that are found in concretions, but to find fossils in the shale itself was new and exciting.  Museum crews collected a few times there while the construction was going on, with the landowner's permission, of course.  We built a  nice collection that includes a lot of things not usually found in the Cody Shale, like these claws, two species of crab, several examples of echinoids and more.  I have a paper coming out eventually on this site.  

 

Now back to your regularly scheduled shrimp program. 

 

(Snowing again here in Casper) 

[Bobby Rico]

22 hours ago, jpc said:

We built a  nice collection that includes a lot of things not usually found in the Cody Shale, like these claws, two species of crab, several examples of echinoids and more.  I have a paper coming out eventually on this site.  

 

Thanks for the info , sounds like it was a great and very interesting spot to collect. I an glad your museum got a heads up and the chance to collect there before it was lost. Do you have other posts with finds from this location?  Cheers Bobby 

Edited April 15, 2023 by Bobby Rico