Oldest Fossilized Shrimp: Geologists Study Rare Well-Preserved Creature Showing Muscles

[Nandomas]

Rodney Feldmann, professor emeritus, and Carrie Schweitzer, associate professor, from Kent State University's Department of Geology report on the oldest fossil shrimp known to date in the world. The creature in stone is as much as 360 million years old and was found in Oklahoma. Even the muscles of the fossil are preserved.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101109172349.htm

[Auspex]

What a fossil

[Nicholas]

Someone pass the tartar sauce.

Seriously though, I'm in love.

[pleecan]

That is a neat article....

If you consider a phyllocarid a primitive shirmp.... these can be found in the Silurian Eramosa Lagersttate 420 million yrs ago with possible soft tissue preservation which may push the clock further back in time. Further more during Cambrian times soft tissue preservation of primitive phyllocarid like creatures can be found in the Burgess Shale and Chengjang Lagerstatten Biota deposits.... so I guess what one defines as a shrimp......