For those of you who think that the old good mantis is a DEAD mantis...

[jokermgp]

Here's a link to a very, very dead mantis shrimp that you can have for your vry own...scroll down to find it.


http://www.indiana9fossils.com/Lebanon/Lebanon.htm

Cheers...Michael :beer:

 

[jokermgp]

oops...the link didn't work.

try this...

http://www.indiana9fossils.com/Lebanon/Lebanon.htm

Cheers...Michael Porter :beer:

 

[Gonodactylus]

There are a lot of these Pseudosculda laevis hitting the market from Lebanon. They show up on Ebay regularly. This is a fairly small species - most individuals are under two inches - that lived in a soft marine substrate around 100 million years ago. From the material I've seen, there must have been frequent mass mortality in these bays. I suspect perhaps fresh water and/or heat that drove the animals out of their burrows where they died on the surface of the mud and were quickly buried. You often see more than one stomatopod on a small slab and frequently they are preserved with small fish or shrimp.

Roy