Hexagonaria

Photograph by James Kocher.

Photography Contest, Honorable Mention.

Hexagonaria
Hexagonaria davidsoni – in-situ Upper Devonian fossilized coral, Middle/Upper Devonian Callaway Limestone, ~350 Ma, Dry Fork Creek, Mark Twain National Forest (Cedar Creek Section), Callaway County, MO. The northern red oak (Quercus rubra) leaf is for scale. See also Missouri Fossils, by Bruce L. Stinchcomb.