Museum Quality Complete Spiny Crab - Fossil carapace
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This natural, complete 3D spiny crab fossil from the Lower Miocene has its legs, claws and carapace intact, with no restorations.
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Museum specimen of a spiny fossil crab from the Lower Miocene.
A rare complete 3D-prepared specimen with all eight legs, claws, and the carapace, preserved on its hard concretion.
Female specimen with small claws.
Specimens showing all the spines and legs are very uncommon for a main reason:
Once the specimen dies, it disarticulates.
In this specimen all the legs are present.
The matrix has been worked to reveal as much of the specimen as possible.
Concretion is 55 x 35 x 17 mm.
A painstaking work of many days was necessary to expose this specimen and preserve all those tiny details on the claws and on legs.
All the parts of the specimen are original, not a composition, with no restorations, not pieces from other specimens.
100% original fossil.
Rare museum specimen from a new site.
Seller's Story
I, Don, started fossil hunting in 1987, going from a passionate collector to a professional preparator and researcher. In all these years I have traveled searching for fossils in many parts of the world.
Our fossils are present in private collections in the United States, Singapore, Taiwan, as well as in prestigious museums in the Uk, China and Japan.
Quality in the preparation of the material and seriousness in managing the shipment in the best possible way distinguish us.
Don
Museum specimen of a spiny fossil crab from the Lower Miocene.
A rare complete 3D-prepared specimen with all eight legs, claws, and the carapace, preserved on its hard concretion.
Female specimen with small claws.
Specimens showing all the spines and legs are very uncommon for a main reason:
Once the specimen dies, it disarticulates.
In this specimen all the legs are present.
The matrix has been worked to reveal as much of the specimen as possible.
Concretion is 55 x 35 x 17 mm.
A painstaking work of many days was necessary to expose this specimen and preserve all those tiny details on the claws and on legs.
All the parts of the specimen are original, not a composition, with no restorations, not pieces from other specimens.
100% original fossil.
Rare museum specimen from a new site.
Seller's Story
I, Don, started fossil hunting in 1987, going from a passionate collector to a professional preparator and researcher. In all these years I have traveled searching for fossils in many parts of the world.
Our fossils are present in private collections in the United States, Singapore, Taiwan, as well as in prestigious museums in the Uk, China and Japan.
Quality in the preparation of the material and seriousness in managing the shipment in the best possible way distinguish us.
Don
Details
Specimen
Museum Quality Complete Spiny Crab
Country of origin
Asia
Geological period
Neogene, Miocene (23.03 - 5.33 million years)
Condition
Natural
Authenticity
Original/official
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