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Jun. 9th, 2025 06:20 pm
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closeups of the corallites of eight colonial corals 
some colonial corals’ corallites! clockwise from top left:
1.) Class Anthozoa, Order Scleractinia, Genus unknown
2.) Class Anthozoa, Order Tabulata, Genus Syringopora
3.) Class Anthozoa, Order Tabulata, Genus Halysites
4.) Class Anthozoa, Order Tabulata, Genus Favosites
5.) Class Anthozoa, Order Scleractinia, Genus Thecia
6.) Class Anthozoa, Order Rugosa, Genus Hexagonaria
7.) Class Anthozoa, Order Tabulata, Genus Aulopora
8.) Class Anthozoa, Order Scleractinia, Genus unknown

Jun. 4th, 2025 10:15 pm
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a pencil drawing of a Hexagonaria fossil with a small 1 cm scale bar to the right 
my hand holding a Hexagonaria fossil, a colonial rugose coral about the size of my palma closeup of the Hexagonaria’s corallites. most tend towards hexagonal but some have five or four sides; all have ridges extending radially from the center
Hexagonaria, a genus of colonial rugose coral which dates to the Devonian period (~420 mya)

Sep. 20th, 2024 03:13 pm
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 a complete trilobite fossil embedded in a light-colored sedimentary rock
trilobite!!!! i work in a lab packing specimens (rocks, minerals, and fossils) for storage while they renovate the building and this guy was so cute i had to take a picture

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