Beecher's Trilobite Bed

Beecher's Trilobite Bed is a Konservat-Lagerstätte of Late Ordovician (Caradoc) age located within the Frankfort Shale in Cleveland's Glen, Oneida County, New York, USA.

[17] The small quarry at the site is currently closed to public access,[18] being on private land[17] and administered by Yale Peabody Museum as part of ongoing research projects.

[14] The depth of the area is indicated by the presence blind animals, including the trilobite Cryptolithus, and the majority of the other taxa known occupying deposit and suspension feeding niches.

[14][20] The fauna of the site included various trilobites, megacheirans, graptolites, brachiopods, nautiloids, ostracods, poriferans, bryozoans, annelids, phyllocarids, bivalves, and echinoderms.

[14] The trilobite Triarthrus eatoni comprises 85% of the organisms sampled at the locality, other notable taxa include graptolites, branching algae, brachiopods and problematica (incertae sedis).

Fossil specimen of the leancholidid arthropod Lomankus edgecombei