Arachnophyllum coral fossil. This colonial animal consists of individual corallites (tubes which each held a polyp animal) located in a single compoun

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Arachnophyllum coral fossil. This colonial animal consists of individual corallites (tubes which each held a polyp animal) located in a single compound skeleton. This specimen is from the Silurian period, approximately 425 million years ago.

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