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Big Crab.
Rare example.


SPECIES


Potamon sp.


AGE


Pleistocene (400.000+ years)


LOCATION


Denizli Basin, Southwest Turkey


FORMATION


Travertine Deposits


WEIGHT

1760 Gr.


SIZE

Crab 100 mm * 55 mm * 22 mm


Rock 185 mm x 150 mm x 35 mm


This is a spectacular fossil freshwater crab (Potamon sp) preserved in travertine from the Denizli Basin in Southwest Turkey. The crab itself is 4.5 cm wide and exhibits amazingly detailed, 3d preservation. It's totally coated and preserved as a three-dimensional outer cast within a natural cavity of a white travertine matrix. It is covered by an inorganic film of calcium carbonate.


Travertine is a type of limestone that forms around mineral springs. It is often quarried for use as a building material, and that is how these crabs were discovered, during the quarrying of the stone slabs. The travertine deposits in the Denizli Basin are Pleistocene in age, having been formed within the past 400,000 years.

Quaternary, Pleistocene (2.58 - 0.0117 million years) - Turkey

Crab - Fossil skeleton - 185 mm - 150 mm

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Dimensions

Height

Width

Depth

Object

Fossilised animal

Fossil tooth

Raw mineral

Amber

Fossil fragment

Fossil matrix

Fossil skeleton

Fossilised shell

Fossil teeth

Fossil plate matrix

Fossil cabochon

Carved mineral

Fossil carapace

Fossil mortality plate

Fossilised plant

Fossilised egg

Fossil skull

Fossil bone

Fossilised claw

Fossilised jaw

Fossilised wood

Fossil molar

Tooth

Metaphysical stones

Fossilised tusk

Country of origin

Morocco

Madagascar

Indonesia

Asia

China

Lebanon

Myanmar

Brazil

North America

Africa

Russia

Turkey

Netherlands

Baltic states

India

South Africa

U.S.

Material

Silver

Gold-plated

Gender

Women

Unisex

Condition

Natural

Restored

Enhanced

Good condition

Reassembled

Manipulated

As new - unused

Reconstructed

Composed

Good condition - used with small signs of aging & blemishes

Excellent condition - barely used with minimal signs of wear

Period

Cretaceous, Upper (100.5 - 66 million years)

Cretaceous, Lower (145 - 100.5 million years)

Cretaceous (145 - 66 million years)

Neogene, Miocene (23.03 - 5.33 million years)

Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 million years)

Quaternary, Pleistocene (2.58 - 0.0117 million years)

Jurassic (201.3 - 145 million years)

Paleogene, Eocene (56 - 33.9 million years)

Jurassic, Lower (201.3 - 174.1 million years)

Neogene (23.03 - 2.58 million years)

Triassic (251.9 - 201.3 million years)

Jurassic, Upper (163.5 - 145 million years)

Jurassic, Middle (174.1 - 163.5 million years)

Devonian, Middle (393.3 - 382.7 million years)

Ordovician (485.4 - 443.8 million years)

Neogene, Pliocene (5.33 - 2.58 million years)

Triassic, Middle (247.2 - 237 million years)

Triassic, Upper (237 - 201.3 million years)

Paleogene, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.03 million years)

Paleogene (66 - 23.03 million years)

Cenozoic (66 - 0 million years)

Paleogene, Paleocene (66 - 56 million years)

Triassic, Lower (251.9 - 247.2 million years)

Cambrian, Miaolingian (509 - 497 million years)

Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 million years)

Stone

Coral

Natural Pearl

Pearl

Turquoise

Zircon

Certification

No laboratory report

Style

Ancient Egypt, Late Period

Baroque

Round

Exact colour

White

Mineral

Amethyst

Petrified wood

Agate

Mineral form

Freeform

Geode

Sphere

Size on item

Adjustable

Large (19 cm)

Pearl surface quality

Clean

Pearl luster

Good

After 2000

Before 1400

1900-2000

Treatment

Conserved

Polished

Composite

Specimen

Dinosaur

Trilobite

Ammonite

Megalodon

Fish

Mosasaur

Marine reptile

Fossil

Burmese amber

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