Oct 21, 2003 · More than 500 remnants of prehistory--fossilized ghost crabs--have been found in the sand between Melbourne Beach and Satellite Beach. Although picked up for decades by beachcombers, these...

Jul 1, 2003 · More than 500 nearly complete specimens of the Atlantic ghost crab Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius) were collected from the upper Pleistocene to Holocene Anastasia Formation along beaches in Brevard County, Florida. Such whole-body decapod crustaceans are rare in Quaternary deposits of the southeastern United States.

Aug 31, 2020 · Neither a plain pebble nor a magical being, these amazing finds are actually 110,000-year-old ghost crabs that have been perfectly encased in coquina rock. The Atlantic ghost crab, or Ocypode quadrata, is an animal that looks much like any other member of the crab family, with its one large front claw and hard carapace. Coquina rock is a ...

More than 500 nearly complete specimens of the Atlantic ghost crab Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius) were collected from the upper Pleistocene to Holocene Anastasia Formation along beaches in Brevard County, Florida. Such whole-body decapod crustaceans are rare in Quaternary deposits of the southeastern United States.

More than 500 nearly complete specimens of the Atlantic ghost crab Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius) were collected from the upper Pleistocene to Holocene Anastasia Formation along beaches in Brevard County, Florida.

Fossil specimens of O. quadrata have been found in rocks dating from the Pleistocene. [5] The Atlantic ghost crab lives in burrows in sand above the strandline. [2] . Older individuals dig their burrows farther from the sea, some starting as much as 400 m (1,300 ft) inland. [4] .

Noriega R and Smeuninx R (2008) Ghost crab (Ocypode cordimanus) as a potential indicator of human impact along Gold Coast beaches. Griffith Centre for Coastal Management Research Report No. 82. Palmer JD (1971) Comparative studies of circadian locomotory rhythms in four species of terrestrial crabs. American Midland Naturalist. 85: 97-107.

Jan 1, 2008 · Twenty species in 17 genera of decapod crustaceans are reported from the Upper Miocene Mapulo Formation in Taysan, Batangas, southern Luzon and the Lower Pleistocene Mandog Formation in Davao City,...

Oct 31, 2011 · A perfect outline of the bottom side of a ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata), found just after dawn and high tide on Nannygoat Beach, Sapelo Island, Georgia. Why would a ghost crab make such a trace? (Scale in centimeters, and photograph taken by Anthony Martin.)

A fossil crab from the Miocene Epoch (about 15 million years old), preserved in a sandstone bed cropping out on a beach near Comodora Rivadavia, Argentina. This crab and others like it in the sandstone were all preserved the same way: nearly entire, implying they were buried quickly, and parallel to the original sandy surface on which they settled.