Sponge Fossils
Cochise College 
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Roger Weller, geology instructor

wellerr@cochise.edu  copyright 2011-R.Weller

 
Receptaculites-3
sponge-like fossil
still closer view
Clay Center, Ohio

Ordovician
Structure has been replaced with tiny calcite or dolomite crystals.
 

Receptaculites                                                                                                                                  3277b    

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