COR122 - FOSSILIZED PAIR OF JUVENILE PREHISTORIC ROSE CORAL COLONIES

Product Description

ITEM # 

COR122

ID

Manicina areolata 

FOUND

Caloosahatchee Formation - Charlotte Co, Florida, USA

AGE

LATE PLIOCENE:  3 million years ago

SIZE

5.65" and 5.25" across

CONDITION

100% GENUINE, NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION

NOTE

IMMACULATELY PRESERVED EXAMPLES

Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

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Where most coral fossils occur in the market as broken or severly damaged pieces of a larger colony, this remarkable pair includes TWO juvenile early stage specimens of COMPLETE COLONIES from the Late Pliocene and is of the species Manicina areolata, otherwise known as ROSE CORAL.  These are hard to find in complete, undamaged form with every anatomical detail preserved as seen.  One colony is curved and one is straight.   An amazing display set and highly educational of the early development stages of prehistoric (and modern) corals of this type!   NO REPAIR and NO RESTORATION. 

Fossil corals are beautiful and fascinating, reminding us of the wonderful creatures that made up prehistoric ocean life.  Unlike modern coral which we VEHEMENTLY discourage purchasing for obvious reasons, collecting fossil coral not only broadens ones collection and studies but it also helps to appreciate the beauty beneath the ancient seas and how important and fragile such amazing creatures were and still are.  While many species of fossil coral are extinct, others still survive today yet struggle against extinction.  Pollution and the modern coral collecting market is directly causing the destruction of massive colonies of these ecologically vital organisms in our oceans.

Camels, saber cats, giant ground sloths, giant beavers and mammoths were roaming the forests and plains of Florida when this coral colony was alive in the surrounding warm ancient oceans three million years ago.