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DeROSEAR COLLECTION - Phacops Mass Mortality
NEW YORK • PHACOPS
Stock Number TTDDR79
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Name:   Phacops rana rana
Age:  Middle Devonian
Formation:  Moscow Formation
Location:  Penn-Dixie Quarry, near Hamburg, New York
Size:  Plate is 5.5 inches across
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This is a very collectible trilobite plate. It is a mass mortality slab of Phacops rana rana from New York State. This specimen was found in the classic Penn-Dixie quarry, and was in the DeRosear Collection until recently. The plate has ELEVEN(!) trilobites represented. Most are tightly articulated, so they were probably alive when buried, not just discarded molted exoskeletons. And they were crawling all over each other when they died! We don't know when we will have another plate of eleven Phacops from New York, so you might want to consider this slab if you ever wanted one. This is one piece that can truly be called a "death assemblage".