Description
Here is your chance to own a unique and classic animal from a classic site. This is a Spectacular piece.
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Fossils especially this Fossil Gastropod and Cornulites from this site are preserved in Spectacular detail. Because of the wide variety and number of this fine snail, gastropod it is also assumed they were quite prolific and possible very common. .
This Platyceras niagarensis is a gastropod or snail. The Cornulites is attached, it grew on the shell of the snail. These creatures ate the detritus, the decaying plant and animal matter on the ocean floor. But these fossil do have modern relatives that live in the oceans today. So then they lived in shallow salt water seas and lagoons. They lived during the Paleozoic and were most prevalent during the Mississippian Period. But there are also modern day snails in the oceans and also in fresh water today.
Although there were many species of Gastropods, they shared a basic body styles consisting of a hard shell. But mostly the shells had whorls and the creature lived inside the shell.
This Fossil Platyceras Gastropod shows great detail as does the Cornulites. Many times the gastropods are found in association with crinoid crowns. But to have a Cornulites attached is quite rare. They thrived in the warm shallow inland sea that covered the area during the Silurian Period. Because the crinoids living near what is now Middleport, New York they were established near an ocean delta system that periodically buried the animals in silt. However the silt eventually hardened into stone that preserved the gastropods in glorious detail.
The Fossil gastropod has exceptional detail . This fossil Gastropod is 3/4 inches long. The Cornulites is just over 1/4 inch, It has been meticulously prepared using air abrasive technology.
