FOSSILS SPECIMEN: CRUSTACEANS
Fossils are defined as any evidence of prehistoric life. There are two types of fossils: Body Fossils include remains of skeletal bones, shell, carapace, test and teeth. Trace Fossils are clues the organism existed such as foot prints, tracks, burrows and coprolites (fossil dung).
Arthropoda meaning “jointed foot” are classified as within the Domain: Eukarya, Kingdom: Animalia and Phylum: Arthropoda. This group includes ants, bees, butterflies, dragonflies, millipedes scorpions, spiders, crabs and lobsters. To see my arthropod models click here and for modern crustaean shells click here.
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Arthropoda: Subphylum: Crustacea
(shrimp, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, and crawfish)
Cambrian to Holocene
Fossil Shrimp Antrimpos speciosus
Upper Jurassic (155 MYA)
Solnhofen Limestone, Eichstatt, Germany
Fossil Shrimp Carpopenaeus sp.
Upper Cretaceous (~94 MYA)
Hjoula, Lebanon
Crustacean Burrow in Limestone Matrix
Lower Cretaceous
Uvalde, Texas, United States
Crustacean Burrow
Cretaceous
Hill Country, Texas
Crustacean Burrow
Cretaceous
High Island, Texas
Crustacean Burrow
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Crustacean Crab Carapace
(Ventral View)
Crustacean Crab Claws
(Four differnt idivisuals)
Crusteacean Crab Limbs
Crab Carapace
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Fossil Barnacles on matrix
Cenozoic
Fossil Barnacles
Cenozoic
Crustaceans Barnacle
Pleistocene
Florida, United States
Crustaceans Barnacle
Pleistocene
Florida, United States