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Just Some More (Smaller) Nz Crabs Motunau.........


moahunt1

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Hi there

Well I obviously cant get you as excited about these as the recent post by northstar on cretaceous vertebrates lol but thought you might want to see my pliocene fossil crabs and bits from Motunau that i collected on monday

I took a mate out who hadnt been fossil hunting before. I gave him some nice specimens as thats what you do when you take someone out. but i did have to keep the unusual stuff.

I only kept one spider crab

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I came across at least 5 cancer crabs here are the best two

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crab claws which I havenr seen before

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whale vert

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weird bubbly thing crab carapace? (when I say weird it means its not in any books or publications that i know if and i have pretty much all of them on my sites, it could be a sponge? ?????

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Hunted for fossils in:
UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips)
Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood
Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!
USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammals
New Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada

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this is some of the other stuff

a nice barnacle, i like these for some reason

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claw of a great big crab

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box of the rest of the random fossils i kept inc some shells a piece of whale skull concretions with crabs in

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Hunted for fossils in:
UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips)
Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood
Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!
USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammals
New Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada

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