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Description: | A fossil solitary rugose coral identified as Kodonophyllum truncatum. This specimen is fairly well preserved and pale brown in colour. The specimen is a horozontal section through a number of corals with one face cut and polished. The round tabulae and radiating septa are visible. Some of the corals protrude from the matrix, while others have been broken flat on the unpolished side. The fossils are preserved in a pale grey/brown lime mud matrix between the corals. The matrix has a few patches of orange iron oxide staining. AR/CB 17/05/2010
Label on specimen; Of A.J.R Solater, Madrepore Worker, Dealers in Minerals, Fossils, British and foreign shells, 43 Northumberland Place, Teignmouth, (written in pencil) Round rare corals.
Fossil solitary rugose coral known as Kodonophyllum truncatum, 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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