7.5" Cluster of Fossil Clams With Fluorescent Calcite - Ruck's Pit, FL

Cluster of Fossil Clams With Fluorescent Calcite - Ruck's Pit, FL #242884

This is a 7.5" wide cluster of fossil clams (Mercenaria permagna) from the the famous Ruck's Pit quarry in Florida. The interior of the clam are filled with golden-yellow calcite crystals that are are highly fluorescent under both short and long-wave UV. There are clam fossils visible on both sides of the rock with the largest being 4.9" wide. It comes with an acrylic display stand.

Ruck's Pit was a small cement quarry, that for several years in the early 2000's produced some amazing crystal lined fossils. Around 2006 the quarry was shut down, and filled in with water. While some material is still being found in tailing piles from he quarry, high quality specimens of these remarkable crystal filled fossils are becoming hard to acquire.

A geological paper on they unique geology and fossil occurrences in Ruck's Pit can be found here.

$345

SPECIES

Mercenaria permagna

AGE

Early Pleistocene (2 Million Years Old)