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Description: | Heliolites (meaning sun stone), is one of many different fossil corals which can be found in the Silurian rocks exposed at the Wren's Nest hills, Dudley. If you look carefully at the surface of this coral it shows a structure of large circles (looking like miniature rayed suns), surrounded by a fine net-like structure of small pits. The skeleton forms a cushion-shaped structure and was built by hundreds of coral polyps which lived on the top surface of the 'cushion'. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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