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Description: | A complete fairly well preserved Meristina obtusa brachiopod (27mm x 25mm x 18mm). It is dark grey in colour and has a smooth ornimentation with a fold. The beak is prominant. In places it is covered in a pale brown fine grained matrix. There are patches of calcite. There are two secondary bryozoan (5mm x 4mm) (5mm x 3mm). This is from within the Coalbrookdale Formation. This is Silurian dating at c425my and was collected from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands. AR
A fossil Meristina obtusa 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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