I found a Fossil..

I ran into this piece of slate on this wet day and noticed it had a hairline crack so I pulled the two layers apart and found this inside. It looks like a fossil of a moth?
First time I ever saw this
Have any of you ever seen something like this?
Is this really a fossil or just a freak work of art?

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Fossil of a shell-clad sea critter of some kind...

That's a cool find!

Very nice, clearly it is a fossil of some prehistoric shell, no doubt.

very nice!

take it to the museum...they will tell you what it is...

Very cool stuff.

Great find! Looks like some sort of brachiopod, a small bivalve-like organisms, commonly from the Devonian. I'm in school in Ithaca, NY and we have a lot of them in our gorges.

Terrific find! Neat to see.

Definitely a fossil bivalve! I found a big one in the riverbed once - except it wasn't one part of the shell in a rock like yours is, it looked exactly like a whole, closed clam that just turned to stone. Really cool, I keep it on my desk.

You could probably find crinoids too - the stems fossilize really well. They look like little stacked discs that make a long stalk.

Isn't it cool that the creature died, didn't rot or get eaten or be crushed, got buried in the correct type of sediment, probably sank deep into the earth, fossilized and rose to the surface after millions of years all without being destroyed, and was lucky enough to be in the exact right place to be found by YOU?

You found yourself a lovely shell fossil.. Check out your local rock and mineral society, they will give you an answer. I belong to a rock club and the members are very well schooled

Beautiful specimen... I need to google your location

That awesome! great find!

Thanks all!

With a little looking up, it seems to go with Dpsteak suggestion of it being a some sort of brachiopod.
It was found about 90miles east of Ithaca

ksuamy20,
Yea, and luckily I had my camera with CF and full battery

devonian or silurian age brachippod. Mucrospirifer I believe is the scientific name if I'm not mistaken. Nice clean cast. If it's in it's wet state. wrap it in a damp paper towel and let it dry very slowly. then you can spray it with matte or gloss clearcoat and preserve it. (I like the matte finish myself, but some love their fossils very glossy)

Find it up in the finger lakes area by any chance?

Nice find, and nice region of NY too!!

Awesome find. That is something to add to the display case!!!