Australian fossil crab ("Torynomma quadrata") Pins Measuring exactly six centimetres

Measuring exactly six centimetres

mighty Triceratops and the feathered ancestors of modern birds

there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth

Issue 11 (2014)

Virtually indestructible

Australian fossil crab ("Torynomma quadrata") Pins Measuring exactly six centimetresTorynomma quadrata (Square Crustacean Crab) is an extinct marine arthropod from Australias Cretaceous inland seas. This species is dated to approximately 95104 million years ago (Cretaceous) and is known from the Allaru Formation at Currane Station, Ilfracombe, Central West Queensland. The specimen represents a benthic crustacean that lived on or near the sea floor within the warm shallow waters of the Eromanga Sea system. Originally described in 1953