Excellent Orbitoplax Crab Fossil from Oregon

Description: This is excellent specimen of Orbitoplax. The specimen has excellent color and claws. Four partial legs and the right eyestalk are preserved. It was discovered by cracking the concretion in which it was residing for so many millions of years. It was discovered by cracking the concretion in which it was residing for so many millions of years.

In March and July of 2008 I had the unique privilege of purchasing two large lots from a most important collection. The collector had painstakingly accumulated a superb group of decapods, echinoderms and other fossils during a twenty-year period. The vast majority of the specimens came from self-collecting, academic resources, trading, and selected purchases. Very few of fossils came from the normal channels of trade shows and commercial internet resources. Any specimen presented under this introductory paragraph will generally be a superior collector grade fossil; be it of rarity, preservation, or, both.