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Description: | A large fossil tabulate (colonial) coral identified as Syringopora fascicularis. The specimen has significant amount of pale grey lime mud matrix across its surface and infilling the corallite. The corallites are up to 1mm diameter forming long tubes to the flat base of the fossil. There are a number of mat-like bryozoa cemented to the surface (up to 37mm x 24mm). A depression measuring (35mm x 13mm) is visible on the top of the specimen, aswell as a 5mm crinoid calyx base. Cemented within the base of the mud matrix are two conical rugose corals, one covered by a bryozoan. AR/CB
A fossil tabulate coral identified as Syringopora fascicularis, which is about 425 million years old | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | Sandwell Museums | Subjects: | Geology Palaeontology | Temporal: | Silurian - Wenlock - Homerian | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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