Description
Ordovician fossils from around St. Leon, Indiana. The area of southern Ohio and Southern Indiana into Kentucky was once the bottom of a shallow salt water sea teeming with life.
These are examples of those creatures. In this collectors case is a section of fossilized sea floor, commonly called hash. It contains many creatures such as brachiopods, bryozoans and more. And these were all denizens of those shallow seas. All were buried by a fine grained soft mud to begin their long process of fossilization.
The Ordovician Fossil Frame Fossil Brachiopods Plate part of the Sea Floor comes in this handsome 3 inch by 5 inch glass-topped collectors case. The Ordovician Period was a time when ancient tropical seas covered Southern Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. And at that time the area was warm and sub-tropical. Life on land was just beginning to take hold but the seas were teeming with life. Animals such as these corals and brachiopods lived on the bottom and thrived.
Because of the tropical storms that ravaged the area, these animals were killed and buried. This Ordovician Fossil Brachiopod frame is but a snapshot of life during the Ordovician. The fossils are quite plentiful and are easily found in the beds of streams and rivers when water level is low. Certain areas of gray shale or clay are the most productive.
The Fossilized Sea Floor Fossil Brachiopods Plate contains Brachiopods were animals like modern sea shells. These animals were filter feeders eating plankton and other food as it floated by. Because they ere hard shelled animals the preserved detail very well. The plate is 2 by 3 1/4 inches.
