Carboniferous Coral #1

3D Model

Specimen: Unidentified species of coral

Locality: Bloyd/Hale Formation or Atoka Formation, Cherokee county, Oklahoma, USA

Age: Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian early to middle

This lobe of coral once sat at the bottom of a shallow sea that covered much of what is now the United States of America.

For who knows how long, these coral polyps built their fortress in that ocean surrounded by crinoids, bryozoans, brachiopods, perhaps even a few trilobites or sharks.