Kent State geology professors study oldest fossil shrimp preserved with muscles

One of America's favourite seafood is shrimp. Did you know that they fossilise as well? Rodney Feldmann, professor emeritus, and Carrie Schweitzer, associate professor, from Kent State University's Department of Geology report on the oldest fossil shrimp known to date in the world. The creature in stone is as much as 360 million years old and was found in Oklahoma. Even the muscles of the fossil are preserved. Their study will be published in Journal of Crustacean Biology...

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