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Name:
Paraspirifer bownockeri
Age: Middle Devonian
Formation: Silica Shale
Location: Sylvania, Ohio
Size: Each brach is 2.2" across
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This is a very attractive brachiopod specimen. There are two large examples of Paraspirifer bownockeri on this plate from the famous Silica Shale of Ohio. The brachiopods are extremely 3-dimensional and exhibit fine detail. The fossil shells have both valves present and are nicely articulated. The pointed ''wings'' of the brachs are intact, and the coarse ornamentation is wonderfully displayed. The brachiopods are replaced by iron pyrite or ''fool's gold'', and the golden coloration is quite spectacular. The fossils are well presented on the large matrix base. This is an extremely pretty specimen of these obese brachiopods from the Devonian.
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