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#FossilFriday: Fossil Crab – Tumidocarcinus giganteus – Miocene

Dragos Mitrica by Dragos Mitrica
August 15, 2014
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Via Fossilera.com

Tumidocarcinus giganteus roamed today’s New Zealand in the Miocene. The Miocene  is the first geological epoch of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.332 million years ago. Life in the Miocene was marked by the development of two new biomes, kelp forests and grasslands. This allows for more grazers, such as horses, rhinoceroses,and hippos. Marine wildlife was fairly modern, as depicted by this remarkable fossil

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Dragos Mitrica

Dragos Mitrica

Dragos has been working in geology for six years, and loving every minute of it. Now, his more recent focus is on paleoclimate and climatic evolution, though in his spare time, he also dedicates a lot of time to chaos theory and complex systems.

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