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Description: | A complete fairly well preserved fossil Cyrtia exporrecta brachiopod (14mm x 10mm x 9mm). Very large triangular interarea with an elongated pedicle opening (6mm x 3mm). The pedicle opening has been infilled with a pale brown fine grained sediment. The specimen is dark brown/grey in colour. The ribs are very fine. In between the ribs there is a small amount of a pale brown fine grained matrix. The one valve is almost completley covered in red iron oxide. This was collected from the Coalbrookdale Formation. This is Silurian dating at c425my and was collected from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands. AR
A fossil Cyrtia exporrecta brachiopod 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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