Crustacean Fossils for Sale

Crustacean Fossils for Sale – Crustaceans have an extensive fossil record going all the way back to the Cambrian Period.

This group include crabs, lobsters, shrimp and trilobites to name but a few. Crustaceans are hard with flexible exoskeleton or shell.

They have two pairs of antennae. A pair of mandibles which are used for eating food. There are two pairs of maxillae on their heads.

Crustaceans are either oviparous or ovoviviparous. Crustaceans have two compound eyes, often on stalks.

Modern Crustaceans form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

We offer a large selection of Crustacean Fossils for sale including Fossil Crabs, Fossil Lobsters and Fossil Shrimp.

*Fossils that come from Limestone that is SPLIT APART to find the fossils will rarely split perfectly, with one side being a perfect positive and the other side a perfect negative. There will be areas “missing” that were left on the other half of the plate. It is usual and customary for those areas to be filled back in, usually with tinted preservative. Then, the whole specimen is lightly coated with a super-thin preservative to keep the carbonized fossil from flaking off.