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Description: | A brurrow trace fossil called Thalassinoids?, range of burrow widths is 9 - 12mm. Preserved within a pale brown micrite slab (136mm x 99mm x 19mm). The burrows are convex from the matrix with oxidation staining but are unclear. The matrix slab is fractured, with calcite veins across its length. On the base of the specimen is the number 7 in black ink. This indicates that this specimen was collected from Steven Birchs locality 7 (GR SO 9370 9150). This specimen is from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Nodular Member. This is Silurian, dating at c425my and was collected from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands. AR/CB
A burrow trace fossil called Thalassinoids? 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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