Description
Here is your chance to own a classic fossil from a classic site.
It is harder and harder to obtain fossils from this private quarry in Middleport, New York
This is a very nice Detailed Silurian Whitfiedella Brachiopod fossil from the Rochester Shale of New York.
This Silurian Whitfiedella Brachiopod Fossil was collected decades ago and just recently prepared by our prep lab..
Here is a Super detailed and rare crinoid from a classic site in NY.
Brachiopods are marine sea shells. But these creatures are not clams. Clams have two equal halves. But Brachiopods have 2 unequal halves.
Because of the wide variety and number of Brachiopod fossils they were preserved in silt and the detail is amazing. Because of large storms such as hurricanes the seas were often rough but the storms did not stay over water. They often hit land and washed silt and sediment into the sea. Because this silt was so fine it preserved these fossils in great detail.
Silurian Whitfiedella Brachiopod has very good detail and is an excellent example of this species.
The Silurian Whitfiedella Brachiopod fossils lived in the warm inland sea that covered the area during the Silurian Period some 420 million years ago. They lived near what is now Middleport New York. Because of the harsh storms battered the lagoons and caused silt to flow into them. It is because the silt hardened into stone that preserved the fossils in detail.
This Fossil has exceptional detail and it have been prepared using air abrasive tools.
The Brachiopod is 1 1/4 inch long by 1 at it’s widest. It sits on gray matrix 3 1/4 by 2 1/4 inches.
