110-million-year-old crustacean holds essential piece to evolutionary puzzle
Wednesday, December 24, 2014 - 07:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
University of Alberta PhD student Javier Luque has found the oldest crown-group true higher crab ever discovered, deep in the tropics of Colombia. The discovery of Telamonocarcinus antiquus pushes back the oldest known record of true higher crabs into the Early Cretaceous, dating about 110 million years ago.