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Title: Small section of coral skeleton Accession Number: 2005.34.235 Category: ZOOLOGICAL SPECIMENS Type: corallite Maker: Place: Date: Materials: aragonite Description: Corallite; Small section of coral skeleton; from the collection of Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899); small section of a stony coral skeleton (known as corallite), possibly from young Elkhorn coral, made of aragonite (the crystal form of calcium carbonate).

Mystic Seaport Image ID m430933    Information regarding reproductions