Description
Here is your chance to own an affordable classic Trilobite Fossil from a classic site. A nice showy piece as well and it is harder to obtain fossils from this private quarry in Middleport, New York
Classic creature from the famous Rochester Shale Deposits of New York. These are extremely rare from this site.
This is a Fossil Trilobite Calymene plus a Graptolite. This is a wonderful fossil for someone who wants a filler piece.
These are NOT top of the line but are good examples of the species. This trilobite is missing a bit of exoskeleton. But these Silurian Period fossils are becoming more rare as this quarry is beginning to play out. These were recently prepared in our prep lab from a decades old stack of unprepared fossils from the Middleport Quarry.
The Fossil Trilobite Calymene Fossil Trilobite is one of the trilobites found during the digging of the Erie Canal. First found in 1839 in a gorge dug for the canal. The trilobite is oval shaped and at first glance, it is difficult to judge which is the cephalon and which is they pygidium. The Trilobite method of rolling up is much like that of a rolly polly rolling up. Because of this it can protect itself from danger. The head and tail sections are quite smooth.
This Fossils Trilobite Calymene is a must have piece for any trilobite or Rochester Shale collector. Though it is not perfect it is still a great example of the species.
It is 1 1/8 inch long on a irregular 5 x 4 1/4 inch matrix. There is also a very nice Graptolite on the piece as well. The Calymene has some damage to the right side but still is a fine piece.
Calymene niagarensis
Silurian Period
Rochester Shale
Caleb’s Quarry
Middleport, New York
