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Description: | A tabulate coral Favosites gothlandicus measuring (64mm x 49mm x 40mm). The appearance is rounded with many individual pentagonal pores. The base of the coral narrows in a conical shape. The specimen has a 10mm bryozoan fragment (possibly Fistulipora?) on the upper pore surface and a 1.5mm brachiopod shell fragment on the opposite side. The upper surface has a 13mm depression where the pores are still present, and a 14mm area where the pores have been destroyed possibly by dissolution weathering of the calcite. This specimen was from the Silurian Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Nodular Member which is approximately 425my. This was collected from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands. CB
Fossil tabulate coral Favosites gothlandicus which is approximately 425 million years old | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Museums Service | Rights holder: | Dudley Museums Service | Subjects: | Steven Birch Collection Geology | Temporal: | Silurian - Wenlock | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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