Daily Archives: March 2, 2014

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An agate-replaced coral from the Oligocene-Miocene of Florida

I long thought of this beautiful specimen as more rock than fossil. It is a scleractinian coral that has had its outer skeleton replaced by the silicate material agate and its interior skeleton completely hollowed out. The result is a … Continue reading

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