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Epibionts on Dromiopsis rugosa (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the late middle Danian Limestones at Fakse Quarry, Denmark: Novel preparation techniques yield amazing results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Sten Lennart Jakobsen  and
Rodney M. Feldmann
Sten Lennart Jakobsen
Affiliation:
Øster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark, and
Rodney M. Feldmann
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242,
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Abstract

Application of new preparation techniques for cleaning and study of fossil crabs to Dromiopsis rugosa (Schlotheim, 1820), from the late middle Danian limestone in the Fakse quarry, Denmark, has revealed remarkable detail of the carapace surface and epibionts infesting inner and outer surfaces of the carapace. Epibionts, identified as clionid sponges, scleractinian corals, cheilostome and ctenostome bryozoans, serpulid worms, and brachiopods, are interpreted as having attached to molted carapaces after the molted carapace had been released.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 78 , Issue 5 , September 2004 , pp. 953 - 960
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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