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Description: | A fossil tabulate coral known as Halysites catenularis. Displays typical 'chain' corallites measuring 1mm in diameter. Covered with a pale brown fine grained mud matrix which also infills the centre of the corallites. The side of the specimen displays a cross section of the coral. Other small secondary fossils present on the surface which includes bryozoa, crinoid stem segment (ossicles) and coral. AR/CB 16/04/2010
Two labels.
One original; stamp paper; Halysites catenularius, Wenlock Edge 1889
One white; 5.
Fossilised tabulate coral called Halysites catenularis which is approximately 425 million years old | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fossils Geology Palaeontology Dr Fraser Collection | Temporal: | Silurian - Wenlock | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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