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Description: | The one valve from a brachiopod known as Gigantoproductus giganteus. The brachiopod is pale grey in colour and covered with a white area on the top. There is a lot of orange iron oxide staining particularly around the beak. The ribs are very prominant and have finer ribs visible within them. The underside of the specimen is flat and infilled with a pale grey fine grained matrix. this matrix covers the one half of the hinge line. The other half of the hinge line is straight. The corners of the specimen appear to have been broken off. AR 14/04/2010
Small label; white; 10 in black ink
Fossil brachiopod called Gigantoproductus giganteus from the Carboniferous Limestone Series which is approximately 328 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: | Natural history Fossils Geology Palaeontology Dr Fraser Collection | Temporal: | Carboniferous - Mississippian | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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