35. Columbus limestone

Middle Devonian, approximately 380 million years old, Columbus limestone, Ingersoll, Ontario.

A person standing next to the Columbus limestone in the Peter Russell Rock Garden
Close-up of a fossil in the Columbus limestone.

The Columbus limestone is rich in fossils such as the one illustrated here: a Favosites coral colony, common called "honeycomb coral".

lose-up of the Columbus limestone showing rugs coral fossils.

Rugose coral are cone shaped, with a wrinkled outer surface. Rugose means wrinkled. This one is broken down the middle and shows the radiating pattern of the septae looking like bicycle spokes. both of these types of coral are now extinct.