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Description: | Awell preserved complete fossil brachiopod called Anastrophia sp. (21mm x 17mm x 16mm). It is pale grey in colour. The ribs are prominant. Some ribs have been broken or flattened. There is a small amount of pale brown fine grained matrix. An orange iron oxide staining is in small patches and around the beak area. The fold has smooth ribs and is ornimented with a zig-zag edge. This is from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Nodular Member. This is Silurian in age and dates at c425my. Collected from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands. AR
A fossil brachiopod called Anastrophia 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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