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Heliophyllum

Heliophyllum is a type of rugose colonial, mound-shaped coral found in Devonian strata. The living coral polyps would have lived in each of the holes (called a calyx). Specimen donated to the Kentucky Geological Survey collection by R. Todd Hendricks. Identification by Alan Goldstein.

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