Uronectes kreicii Fossil

This picture is of an Uronectes kreicii crustacean fossil. It existed during the Carboniferous period. The fossil was found in Nýřany Czech Republic. Fossil was on display at the Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) on August 2024.

Aeger tipularis Prawn Fossil

This fossil was displayed on August 2022, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge,Massachusetts, USA. This prawn fossil is called Aeger tipularis (Schlotheim, 1822). The crustacean lived during the Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian Stage). Fossil was found Solnhofen Limestone of Bavaria, Germany. Catalog number is MCZ106308.

https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IP:106308

Mecochirus longimanatus Claw Fossil

Mecochirus longimanatus crustacean claw fossil found at Eichstätt, Germany. The fossil dates to the Jurassic Period.

Fossil on display at American Museum of Natural History in New York City, USA.

Enoploclytia leachi Fossil

The image is of an Enoploclytia leachi (Mantell, 1822) lobster fossil from the Late Cretaceous Period (Turonian). Found in the Upper Chalk Burham Kent England. On display at the British Natural History Museum London as of August 2016.

Unidentified Trace Fossils from Arabia

This picture is a trace fossil made by possible crustaceans. It was found in Arabia.

It was on display at the British Natural History Museum in London on August 2016.

Waptia fieldensis Plus an Anomalocaris

This picture shows a Middle Cambrian Period (500 million years ago) fossil stored at the Cincinnati Museum Geier Collection Center. It is a Waptia fieldensis from the Stephen Formation in the Burgess Shale Member. The fossil came from Burgess Pass in British Columbia, Canada.

This creature was a crustacean that resembles today's shrimp. The famed paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott named this species in 1912. His notoriety comes from his 1909 discovery the Cambrian fossils in Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies.



This next fossil is also in Burgess Shale but I am not sure what the creature was called. Looking at this website: http://www.trilobites.info/gallery.html. I would say this is an Anomalocaris described by Walcott as a "strange shrimp". Apparently, it was quite the predator of the Cambrian seas.