Charlevoix stone coral belongs to the now-extinct genus Favosites ... state law prohibits individuals from taking more than 25 pounds of rocks, fossils or minerals per year from state parks ...

The stone is submerged, making the fossilized Hexagonaria coral, also known as Petoskey ... Most of it is Traverse limestone with the fossil attached to it. “Most are pebble size, and it is ...

(Paleo) Joe Kchodl, a fossil expert who sets up natural-history exhibits across the state, said that the 93-pound stone of fossilized coral is indeed "rare to find." But he pointed the Free Press ...

University of Missouri researchers find Earth's ancient animal reefs were surprisingly sparse compared to their modern ...

Petoskey stone corals existed about 390 million years ago, according to Backyard Fossils. Other corals and coral-like animals that now are abundant fossils include the Charlevoix stone ...

You can pick up a few fossils of shells, coral and plants, but no vertebrate (animal) fossils,\" explained Bruce Schumacher, the zone paleontologist for the U.S. Forest Service in La Junta.

DR. VON LENDENFELD'S account of the dolomites of the Italian Tyrol, in his letter on “Coral Reefs, Fossil and Recent,” is a very valuable contribution to this interesting question; but I think ...