Antrimpos sp. (fossil shrimp) | Germany | Restored

This beautiful, aesthetic and well preserved fossil shrimp comes from the famous Solnhofen lithographic limestone, in Eichstatt, Germany. This specimen has had minimal restoration. This particular region is home to some of the world's most key fossil discoveries, including Archaeopteryx, the oldest bird fossil to have been found by paleontologists.

Antrimpos is an extinct genus of decapod crustaceans belonging to the order Decapoda and the family Penaeidae. It lived during the Jurassic period and is known from well-preserved fossils found in lithographic limestones, particularly in Solnhofen, Germany, and other Mesozoic marine deposits.

Antrimpos was a marine shrimp that likely inhabited shallow coastal waters and lagoons. Its adaptations suggest it was an active swimmer and possibly a scavenger or omnivore, feeding on small organisms and organic debris. The Solnhofen limestones, where its fossils are frequently found, suggest it lived in warm, carbonate-rich environments with periodic anoxic conditions that contributed to exceptional fossil preservation.

Due to the fine-grained nature of Solnhofen limestones, Antrimpos fossils often exhibit remarkable detail, preserving soft tissue impressions such as muscle structures and even delicate antennae.