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Thursday, 10 September 2015

Fossils Crab from Nicosia - Cyprus

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen), usually hidden entirely under the thorax (brachyura means "short tail" in Greek[a]). They live in all the world's oceans, in freshwater, and on land, are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton, and have a single pair of pincers. They first appeared during the Jurassic Period.
Fossil Crab  from Nicosia

.Photos Nicosia  by George Konstantinou





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