Daily Archives: November 18, 2012

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A crab from the Pleistocene of northern Australia

Isn’t this amazing preservation? This fossil crab, which we received as a donation a few years ago, is Macrophthalmus latreillei (Desmarest, 1822) from the Pleistocene of northern Australia. It is virtually identical to its modern counterpart of the same species, … Continue reading

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