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Name:
Common name:
Family / Genus / Species / Binom / Author:
Geryonidae → Coeloma → balticum → Coeloma balticum → Schluter, 1879
Location:
Handorf, Lower Saxony / Germany
Geological Age:
Tertiary [t], Upper Eocene [teoo] / approx. 35 million years
Size of the fossil:
Length: 6,2 cm
Width: 4,1 cm
Height: 2,1 cm
Weight:
Phosphorite nodule with shrimp from a long-abandoned sand pit belonging to Stahlwerke Peine Salzgitter AG near Handorf in Lower Saxony. When dredging the sand from the water-filled pit, layers of green sand from the upper Eocene were dug up in the bedrock, in which the crabs lived. Old historical material.
