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06/18/2004, 08:42 AM
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For those of you who think that the old good mantis is a DEAD mantis...
Here's a link to a very, very dead mantis shrimp that you can have for your vry own...scroll down to find it.
http://www.indiana9fossils.com/Lebanon/Lebanon.htm Cheers...Michael 
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06/18/2004, 08:43 AM
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oops...the link didn't work.
try this... http://www.indiana9fossils.com/Lebanon/Lebanon.htm Cheers...Michael Porter
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06/18/2004, 10:48 AM
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There are a lot of these Pseudosculda laevis hitting the market from Lebanon. They show up on Ebay regularly. This is a fairly small species - most individuals are under two inches - that lived in a soft marine substrate around 100 million years ago. From the material I've seen, there must have been frequent mass mortality in these bays. I suspect perhaps fresh water and/or heat that drove the animals out of their burrows where they died on the surface of the mud and were quickly buried. You often see more than one stomatopod on a small slab and frequently they are preserved with small fish or shrimp.
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