Description
Here is your chance to own a partial of a classic and rare Arctinurus Trilobite Fossil from a classic site. A nice showy piece as well, harder to obtain fossils from the Middleport Quarry, New York. Complete specimens run in the thousands of dollars.
Classic trilobite from the famous Rochester Shale Deposits of New York. But these are becoming extremely rare from this site.
This Partial Arctinurus Trilobite Fossil is an exceptional trilobite with very thick exoskeleton. And ones such as this are not often found. But these Silurian Period fossils are becoming more rare as this quarry is beginning to play out. As rare as these trilobites are even partials are highly prized.
The Arctinurus Trilobite Fossil is another trilobite originally 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 Arctinurus Trilobite method of rolling up is much like that of a rolly polly closing-just folding over because of this it can protect itself from danger. The head and tail sections are covered with tubercles and are very dimensional..
During the Silurian Period New York State was the bottom of a shallow sea. Because of it’s location near the equator many large storms like hurricanes formed. But these storms did not only stay in the water. They hit the land and washed mud into the sea and buried many animals. Once buried the animals began the process of becoming fossils. Because the mud was fine grained the fossils preserved very well.
Specimen was meticulously prepared using micro air abrasive technology. The trilobite partial is 3 1/2 by 4 inches wide on an irregular 6 x 6 shale matrix.
Arctinurus boltoni
Trilobite
Silurian Period
Rochester Shale Formation
Middleport, New York
