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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / April 2005** NAME OF FOSSILIZED CRAB? **
** NAME OF FOSSILIZED CRAB? ** I NEED HELP... I need the scientific latin name of a fossilized crab from any era that would be found on the Mississippi banks in Minnesota. Thanks!!! > ** NAME OF FOSSILIZED CRAB? ** > > I NEED HELP... I need the scientific latin name of a fossilized crab > from any era that would be found on the Mississippi banks in Minnesota. What is wrong with Greek names? Seriously, it might be useful if you specified what taxonomic level you'd like to have described. Any crab found would be a member of Eukaryota, Animalia, Invertebrata, Arthropoda, Crustacea, Decapoda, etc, etc, etc....ad nauseum....If you want a generic and specific name (traditional binomial classification) more details about the vermin would be useful. Cheers > Thanks!!! > > ................................................................ > Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access > >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< > -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- > > ** NAME OF FOSSILIZED CRAB? ** > > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Cheers Any common name would be fine... such as we call some dinosaurs Brontosaurus... It's for one line... "Look! It's a XXXXXX crab." That's all I need it for. >>>** NAME OF FOSSILIZED CRAB? ** >>> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > "Look! It's a XXXXXX crab." That's all I need it for. My guess is that there are no fossil crabs that would be found on the Mississippi banks. I'm imagining that any exposures are likely to be way too old to have crabs in them. All this is without consulting a geologic map, mind you. But crabs evolved relatively recently compared with many other sorts of invertebrates you could have mentioned. >> > ** NAME OF FOSSILIZED CRAB? ** >> > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >"Look! It's a XXXXXX crab." That's all I need it for. It probably won't be a crab (a decapod crustacean). If you are in the Twin Cities area, it's probably Ordovician in age, but it could be a bit younger or older. There are some Cretaceous exposures in Minnesota that could have real crabs, but not along the Mississippi I think. Try this web site and see if anything there looks familiar: http://www.trilobites.info/ >................................................................ > Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access > >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< >-=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- |
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