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Description: | A well preserved fossil crinoid sp. stem (53mm x 14mm x 9mm). It is pale brown in colour and covered with a pale brown fine grained matrix. Both end ossicles have been infilled with the matrix however on the one lines can be seen radiating out from the centre. The ossicles alternate in size with a large one the a narrow one next to it. Within the matrix there are small grey fragments of fossils which includes a brachiopod. This is from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Nodular Member. This is Silurian in age and date at c425my. Collected from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands. AR
A fossil crinoid sp. stem 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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