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Description: | A fossil of a Favosites sp. tabulate coral measuring (45mm x 43mm x 11mm). The specimen has a low domed shape with many thin walled pores. The fine grained matrix is pale brown in colour infilling the pores, but is more significant on one side of the surface. The pores are approimatly 1mm diameter with thin walls. The base of the specimen has growth lines radiating from the central anchor point. The base of the specimen has the number 12 written in black ink indicating that this was collected from Steven Birchs locality 12 (GR SO 9380 9190). This specimen was from the Lower Quarried Limestone and Coalbrookdale Formation. This was collected from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands AR/CB
Fossil tabulate coral Favosites sp., 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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