Latest Imageshttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/album/2137-alafia-river-coral/Latest Imagesendetailhttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/35890-detail/detail of the fossilized coral structure

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]]>35890Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:16:41 +0000chunkhttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/35889-chunk/Very large chunk of agatized coral head that I found in the Alafia River.

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]]>35889Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:15:48 +000020141214 191830 resizedhttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/35888-20141214-191830-resized/Made a little light table to show off the color and translucency of the thinner pieces.

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]]>35888Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:48:30 +000020141213 131057 1https://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/35887-20141213-131057-1/To quote www.paleoportal.org, "[Florida's] state stone is a fossilized coral (Montastreasp. is pictured) that lived in the shallow seas covering the area during the upper Oligocene to lower Miocene (23-26 million years ago). Over time, the calcium carbonate of the coral skeleton has been replaced with agate."

This piece has druzy quartz areas.

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