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Object Type:
Education and Outreach collections
Collecting Locality:
Golden Gate Quarry, North America, United States, Florida, Collier County
Collection Date:
2013
Description:
This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
Geologic Age:
Cenozoic - Neogene - Pliocene
Notes:
Fragment of fossilized coral found from a quarry, usually an open pit where rocks, minerals, gravel and more are excavated from the ground. Fragment still has some matrix attached to it with possibly some fragments of other marine specimens and imprints of specimens in the matrix or in the coral itself. It measures around 21.5 cm x 20 cm x 6 cm in size.