Description
Here is your chance to own a classic fossil from a classic site.
It is harder and harder to obtain fossils from this private quarry in Middleport, New York
This is an exceptionally prepared and very often overlooked Brachiopod and Cornulites Fossil grouping from the Rochester Shale of New York.
What is exciting about this Brachiopod and Cornulites is that the Cornulites is on one side and the Coolinia brachiopod is on the other. This fossil was collected decades ago and just recently prepared by our prep lab..
Worm tubes from this site are preserved in Spectacular detail. Because of the wide variety and number of these fossils were preserved in silt the detail is amazing. Because of large storms such as hurricanes the seas were often rough but the storms did not stay over water. They often hit land and washed silt and sediment into the sea. Because this silt was so fine it preserved these fossils in great detail. The Brachiopods can be found in the Devonian as well. This block is prepared as a desk top display so both sides can be seen.
Brachiopod and Cornulites Fossils were actually a animals. But the Cornulites are Tube worms living inside a protective shell.
This Brachiopod and Cornulites lived in the warm inland sea that covered the area during the Silurian Period some 420 million years ago. The fossils living near what is now Middleport New York were established near a delta system that periodically buried them in silt. It is because the silt hardened into stone that preserved the fossils in detail.
This Worm Tube has exceptional detail and it has been prepared using air abrasive tools. The Brachiopod also exhibits great detail.
