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Description: | A fossil tabulate coral specimen idenified as Thamnopora cervieornis. This specimen has been polished on one side. Many individual corallites (pores) are white in colour and are upto 2mm long. The rough sides show the corallites in side view as tube structures with oxidation staining. AR/CB 30/04/2010
Original label from shop; Printed; A. J. R. Solater; Madrepore work etc Teignmouth; Hand written; Feather Madrepore
Fossil tabulate coral called Thamnopora cervieornis from Devon which is approximately 390 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: | Middle Devonian - Givetian |
Source: | Black Country History |
Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... |
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