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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Heliolites interstinctus, collected from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of Early Silurian, Wenlock, Homerian age from Wren's Nest, Dudley, West Midlands (Midland England). Collected by J. Goring.
Heliolites (meaning sun stone), is one of many different fossil corals which can be found in the Silurian rocks exposed at the Wren's Nest hills, Dudley. If you look carefully at the surface of this coral it shows a structure of large circles (looking like miniature rayed suns), surrounded by a fine net-like structure of small pits. The skeleton forms a cushion-shaped structure and was built by hundreds of coral polyps which lived on the top surface of the 'cushion'.
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 J. Goring | 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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