Australian fossil crab ("Torynomma quadrata") By Half a Billion Buried within a lost world

Buried within a lost world lie astonishing clues that reveal how extinct animals once lived – glimpses of both their everyday moments and their epic struggles

Fossils suggest a variety of lifeforms

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Dimensions Hangs approx 4

5cm) and Muttaburrasaurus (L 11cm x W 2

Australian fossil crab ("Torynomma quadrata") By Half a Billion Buried within a lost worldTorynomma 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