Description
It is harder and harder to obtain fossils from this private quarry in Middleport, New York
This is a wonderful Cystoid fossil that is very often overlooked. Plates like this from the Rochester Shale of New York show what life abounded in the ancient Silurian sea and how they may have died.
This Small Fossil Cystoid was collected decades ago and just recently prepared by our prep lab. It has at least 4 different species on it. But that is not all, It is visible in 360 degrees. It has a huge bryozoan colony on the opposite side.
Fossils from this site are preserved in Spectacular detail. Because of the wide variety and number of these fossils were preserved in silt 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.
This Cystoid Plate consist of an animals. it was quarried from the Cystoid Layer and has preserved detail beautifully. They lived during the Silurian Period of the Paleozoic.
These animals lived in the warm inland sea that covered the area during the Silurian Period some 420 million years ago. The creatures were living near what is now Middleport New York and were established near a delta system that periodically buried them in silt. It is because the silt hardened into stone that preserved the fossils in detail.
This Small Fossil Cystoid Plate has exceptional detail and it has been prepared using air abrasive tools.
