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HORN CORAL (RUGOSE CORAL) - 375 million years old - Canada

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FOSSILISED HORN CORAL

A horn or rugose coral, an extinct solitary coral.
Heliophyllum halli


375 million years old
(Middle Devonian period)

Arkona, Ontario, Canada
 
Fossilised horn corals such as these from Ontario, Canada, have also been given the name ‘rugose corals’ because of their wrinkled appearance.  They lived in the Palaeozoic era before the age of the dinosaurs.
 
Remarkably, corals such as these have used to establish the length of the year at the time they were living.  These corals added a tiny new layer of growth each day and by counting these bands and comparing them with modern corals it has been established that there were 400 days in the year in the middle of the Palaeozoic era, 380 million years ago.  This slowing of the spin of the Earth is due to the drag effect of the Moon and was as predicted by astronomers’ rough estimates.  It equates to a decrease of 2 seconds per every hundred thousand years.

Please note:  The photographs are typical examples of what we have.  You will receive the best example from our current stock.

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Size: Minimum 5 centimetres long
Weight: varies

Price per coral

PRICE: £6.00