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Eridophyllum seriale Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1850 - fossil rugose coral colony from the Devonian. (public display, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, USA)

Rugose corals are an extinct group of cnidarians. They are often nicknamed "horn corals", in reference to the upside-down horn shape of the skeletons of solitary forms (Ex: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/15590522272">www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/15590522272</a>). Rugose corals made a solid skeleton of calcite (CaCO3 - calcium carbonate). Colonial rugose corals, such as the example shown here, are often decent-sized. Colonial forms have moderately closely-packed to interlocking corallites, unlike the morphology of colonial syringoporid or halysitid corals.

Classification: Animalia, Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Rugosa, Stauriida, Eridophyllidae

Stratigraphy: unrecorded/undisclosed Middle Devonian unit (but possibly the Columbus Limestone)

Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed (but possibly Ohio, USA)

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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugosa" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugosa</a>
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Author James St. John

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