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Description: | A fossil rugose coral known as Acervularia ananas. Displays pentagonal and hexagonal corallites measuring up to 15mm in diameter. Covered with a pale brown fine grained mud matrix which infills the corallites. The corallites display an outer ring of septa and an inner ring of septa which all radiate out from a central point. Other small secondary fossils present on the surface which includes bryozoa, crinoid stem segment (ossicles) and other corals. A calcite vein runs through the specimen. AR/CB 16/04/2010
Original Label; stamp paper; Acervularia luxrians, Wrens Nest, Dudley, 1894
Fossilised coral called Acervularia ananas 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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