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Calcite Psm Fossil

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Calcite Psm Fossil

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Description
Locality: 
Chimay, Hainaut, Belgium
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 7.2 × 4.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.60cm
Weight: 
265.00gr
Description

Curved Ivory-white pyrgopolon mosae, a tube-building annelid worm in the Serpulidae family of the Polychaeta class. These serpulids secrete tubes of calcium carbonate that are here perfectly preserved and well exposed off the calcarenite matrix. They are of Maastrichtien age, the youngest of the Late Cretaceous.

Found by Youri Christiaens in 10/2013.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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