Samantha….Not the same animal, but the same collecting site. The Blue Springs site covers about 1/2 an acre, and represents a fossil site of a shallow Cretaceous embayment. This set of fossils represents collecting for a this specific species.
You can find several common Cretaceous “crab” species, and occasionally marine vertebrate material.
Thank you so much for the prompt response! I was trying to determine if we could enter this as research grade, but unfortunately we try to limit each specimen to one organism per entry. This is so cool!
I’m fascinated by arthropods, so I’ll have to check it out some time.
Samantha…There is one in the set that preserves appendages and the thorax in detail. I could post a photo of that one. I believe it is the top of two of the photos.
Dave
Hi @david-hanes! Are these all from the same animal? Also, I think the class is Malacostraca.
Samantha….Not the same animal, but the same collecting site. The Blue Springs site covers about 1/2 an acre, and represents a fossil site of a shallow Cretaceous embayment. This set of fossils represents collecting for a this specific species.
You can find several common Cretaceous “crab” species, and occasionally marine vertebrate material.
Dave
Thank you so much for the prompt response! I was trying to determine if we could enter this as research grade, but unfortunately we try to limit each specimen to one organism per entry. This is so cool!
I’m fascinated by arthropods, so I’ll have to check it out some time.
Samantha…There is one in the set that preserves appendages and the thorax in detail. I could post a photo of that one. I believe it is the top of two of the photos.
Dave
Samantha…the bottom of 2 of the photos and the top of the last photo.
Dave