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Description: | A very well preserved incomplete fossil brachiopod called Anastrophia deflexa (14mm x 12mm x 10mm). It is dark brown in colour. The ribs can be clearly seen. A pale brown fine grained matrix infills in between the ribs. There is a secondary bryozoa (7mm x 2mm) on the side of the one valve. The beak has been well preserved. This is Silurian in age and dates at c425my. Collected from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands. AR
A fossil brachiopod called Anastrophia deflexa 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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