Red Horn Coral 300 Million Year Old 26.75 ct Round 20.30 mm Y0310

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Red Horn Coral 300 Million Year Old 26.75 ct Round 20.30 mm Y0310

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Horn coral, any coral of the order Rugosa, which first appeared in the geologic record during the Ordovician Period, which began 488 million years ago; the Rugosa persisted through the Permian Period, which ended 251 million years ago. Horn corals, which are named for the horn like shape of the individual structures built by the coral animal, were either solitary or colonial forms. Of the many forms known, some are important as index, or guide, fossils for specific spans of geologic time and serve to correlate sometimes widely separated rock

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