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Posted: Thursday, 06 November 2008 9:14AM
Rare Fossils Found on NYC Cemetery Monument
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A geologist has discovered rare fossils, estimated between 248 million and 540 million years old, on a Staten island Civil War monument.
College of Staten Island professor Alan I. Benimoff made the discovery during a recent walking tour of the borough's Moravian Cemetery.
Benimoff estimates that the fossils are of shallow marine invertebrates from the Paleozoic era. The particular type of fossilized organism, similar to the starfish, is classified by its fivefold symmetry.
Though the fossils' visible cross section is only a fraction of an inch, Benimoff believes they are scattered throughout the monument and could measure as long as a foot.
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