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Gail Tennant commented on their own Fossil #029523 6 years, 4 months ago
6 years, 4 months ago6 years, 4 months agoI did receive a response from emailed photos that this is possibly a colonial coral often called chain coral (Halysites) and either Ordovician or Silurian in age (485 to 419 million years).
@gail-tennant This is a coral but not a chain coral, The corallites in your specimen are all bunched together. In a chain coral the corallites are linked on the edges and look like a chain – hence the name. I would hesitate to place an age on this since it appears to have been transported by water or glaciers depending on your location.
I agree with @jkallmeyer. The specimen is really worn and over worked – but that makes it really interesting in other respects.