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Description: Photographs of a number of fossilized crabs found in the London clay of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK.
Crabs, like other Arthropods have an exoskeleton which they have to shed in order to grow. The majority of crab fossils found on Sheppey are the result of this process. The shed exoskeleton is very fragile and is subject to crushing or dis-articulation. Crab fossils are relatively common on Sheppey, but complete specimens are quite rare. They are almost always found within phosphatic nodules either on the beach or foreshore. These phoshatic nodules are almost always a pale ochre colour with distinctive black where the fossil is exposed.
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| Page title: | Crabs |
| Keywords: | Eocene, London Clay, Sheppey, fossils, collecting, crabs,lobsters, Caenozoic, Ypresian, |
| Description: | Early Eocene, Ypresian, fossils of the London clay of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK. |
| IP-address: | 87.106.70.211 |
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| NS | Name Server: NS-UK.1AND1-DNS.BIZ Name Server: NS-UK.1AND1-DNS.CO.UK Name Server: NS-UK.1AND1-DNS.COM Name Server: NS-UK.1AND1-DNS.ORG |
| WHOIS | Status: ok |
| Date | Creation Date: 12-jan-2001 Expiration Date: 12-jan-2015 |