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Fossil Coral on Mars – Mars Anomalies 2014
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 7:28
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Here is fossil coral on Mars. Description: Corals are simple animals that secrete skeletons made of calcium carbonate. They are close relatives of sea anemones and jellyfish and are the main reef builders in modern oceans. Corals can be either colonial or solitary.
As fossils, corals are found worldwide in sedimentary rocks. Based on these fossils, we know that the corals began their long evolutionary history in the Middle Cambrian, over 510 million years ago. In Kansas, they are fairly common in Pennsylvanian and Permian rocks, deposited from about 315 to 250 million years ago.
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Kansas Geological Survey, Kansas University
