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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, a Chain Coral, Halysites escharoides, collected from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of Early Silurian, Wenlock, Homerian age from Dudley (?), West Midlands (Midland England).
Corals are very common in the Wenlock Limestone and locally form small 'patch' reefs. The common name for this example is 'Chain Coral' as the corallites (each individual section of coral) are joined end to end and look like the links of a chain.
The specimen was found in West Midlands.
It is from the Silurian period (443 - 418 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Anthozoa Coelenterata Classification: Animalia Invertebrata | Temporal: | Silurian period (443 - 418 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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