Crab claw
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Taxon: Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Crustacea,
Class Malacostraca, Subclass Eumalacostraca, Order Decapoda.
Family, genus, and species indet.
(In other words, it looks like some kind of crab.)
Locality: Calvert County, MD
Age: Miocene
Rock unit: Chesapeake Group
Collector: W. Itano
This appears to be a fragment of a crab claw, but cannot be identified
more specifically.
The length is about 1 cm.
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