Fossil Coral with Calcite Crystals - Paleontological Specimen #3229849 (License: Personal Use)

This fossil specimen displays a colonial coral structure with numerous dark, lustrous calcite crystals filling the corallite cavities. The surrounding matrix is a fine-grained, pale sedimentary rock with visible layering and textural detail, indicating diagenetic replacement and preservation in a shallow marine environment. The radial arrangement of the corallites suggests a rugose or tabulate coral, common in Paleozoic strata.

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