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Description: | A tabulate coral Heliolites interstinctus measuring (35mm x 28mm x 25mm). The specimen is mushroom shaped, with a domed top and narrower base. There are many individual 1mm pores with smaller 0.5mm pores between them. The centre of the top shows a dark grey colouration with a light brown mud matrix infilling the pores at the edges. This specimen was from the Silurian Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Nodular Member which is approximately 425my. Collected from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands. CB
Fossil tabulate coral Heliolites interstinctus, 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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