- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- stone, fossil
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1045
- Description
- Colonial coral (Syringopora) fossil from Devonian/Mississippian period. Very similar to the living Indo-Pacific coral, the organ pipe coral. These coral colonies commonly grow up to two feet high. This type of coral fossil is very common in Western Canada and could have been collected locally.
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- Title
- Coral Fossil
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- stone, fossil
- Dimensions
- 3.0 x 8.0 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- Colonial coral (Syringopora) fossil from Devonian/Mississippian period. Very similar to the living Indo-Pacific coral, the organ pipe coral. These coral colonies commonly grow up to two feet high. This type of coral fossil is very common in Western Canada and could have been collected locally.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 2000
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1045
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