[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Mercury Series, Archaeological Survey of Canada, Paper No. 95, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa. Appendix 1: Comparative Collections Housed at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. 16 Exceptional Preservation of a Shell Specimen at the Goldkrest Site (CNGTL470), East Greenbush, New York Frank J. Dirrigl Jr., Department of Anthropology, The University of Connecticut, Storrs At the Goldkrest Site in East Greenbush, New York, the author recovered u hard-shelled clam specimen (Veneridae) of unusual preservation quality at 33-40 cmbs in silty clay. Although the shell remains throughout most of the site consisted of white, chalky, fragmented valves or umbos representing poor preservation, this specimen of at least 100 years old had much of its periostracum intact. I present a taphonomic summary to describe the context of preservation for the specimen. I do this to solicit possible explanations from readers of this paper and to encourage others to report additional instances of exceptional preservation of faunal remains recovered from the northeast United States. hunted/collected, used, buried, recovered, and analyzed. It is impossible for zooarchaeologists to examine all the possible factors that act upon zooarchaeological assemblages. However, the different factors that lead to the preservation of assemblages must be considered by zooarchaeologists when the appropriate data are available.