Name: Slipper Lobster (Unknown Genus), Family Scyllidae

Age: Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage

Size: mm (25.4mm=1 inch): Lobster: 60 mm long, 35 mm wide. Matrix: 100 mm by 66 mm.

Location: Haqel, Lebanon

Code: L333

Price: $175.00 - Sold

Description: This is a most unusual lobster from the sublithographic limestone deposits of Lebanon, a Slipper Lobster (Family Scyllidae). Modern-day Slipper Lobsters hide by day, coming out to forage at night. These lobsters are also called Bulldozer Lobsters, a reference to the shovel-like modified antennae that they use to plow through the substrate in a search for food.