Polished Fossilized Agatized Red Horn Coral Specimen from Utah 12.6 grams rhc31

Description

A Red horn coral specimen from Utah from a locale in the Morgan Formation in the Wasatch Mountains at about 9,000 foot elevation
12.6 grams and approximately 1 1/4 inches by 1 inch and 5/8 inches in height
Pleasantly polished to  see the beauty in the piece
About 300 million years ago, in the Pennsylvanian age, the coral grew in the oceans in a long cone shape. The outside of the corals had a wrinkled appearance. Rugose means wrinkled.  Thus this now extinct order of corals is called Rugosa.  The fossil is the skeleton of the coral animal or polyp that built the structure from calcium carbonate found in the ocean water.  It lived at the top of the cone and as it got bigger it added more material, each layer a little bigger than the one before creating the cone shape.
As the corals fossilized the organic material was replaced by silica and other minerals producing the beautiful patterns and colorations.  Colors range from light greys to pinks and sometimes deep reds
Photographed outside under natural bright light.
From a rock hounds 60 year collection of material
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