Description
This is a VERY UNIQUE PIECE. Here is your chance to own two classic fossils on one piece from a classic site.
This is a Detailed plate. A Grenrisia springeri and a Cupulocrinus jewetti. these were recently collected and just recently prepared. It also displays exceptional detail in the arms and calyx of each animal. The arms are clearly visible and outstanding.
Here is a Super detailed fossil from a classic site in Brechin, Ontario Canada.
Fossils especially these Two Fossil Ontario Crinoids from this site are preserved in Spectacular detail. Because of the large number and variety of these Crinoids it is also assumed they lived in dense communities.
This is actually an animal related to modern day starfish so they are echinoderms. They have modern relatives called crinoids that live in the deep oceans today. So then they lived in shallow salt water seas and lagoons.
Although there were many species of Crinoids, they shared a basic body styles consisting of a stem by which it anchored to the sea floor with a “holdfast”, a calyx which enclosed soft body tissues, and arms which filtered food from the water.
Crinoids thrived in the warm shallow inland sea that covered the area during the Ordovician Period. These are generally found in the sediments of Brechin, Ontario. Because the bedrock is so hard it takes painstaking work to prepare them. The crinoids living near what is now Brechin, Ontario were established near an ocean delta system that periodically buried the colonies in silt. This silt eventually hardened into stone that preserved the cystoids in glorious detail.
These Two Fossil Ontario Crinoids have exceptional detail . One Crinoid crown is 2 inches long. The other from the arms around the stem is just about 5 inches along the curve. They have exceptional detail. The matrix is a roughly square shape 5 1/4 by 4 inches. It has been meticulously prepared using air abrasive technology.
