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Posts treating: "Microsolena aff"

Sunday, 20 April 2014

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A scleractinian coral and its tube-dwelling symbionts (Middle Jurassic of Israel) 

Wooster Geologists [2014-04-20 07:21:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (673 visits) info

 Jurassic; IL
I have a weakness for the beautiful scleractinian corals of the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian-Oxfordian) of southern Israel. This particular specimen is Microsolena aff. M. sadeki from locality C/W-367 in Hamakhtesh Hagadol, southern Israel. (The “aff.” in the name means “affinities with”. It is a way of saying this looks like a particular species,
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