A six-year-old boy finds coral in the garden, which is almost half a billion years old

Six-year-old Siddak Singh Jamat discovered the fossil in his garden in Walsall, UK. To his father

Vish Singh, was able to identify it as a horn coral. He got help from friends in the fossil research community on Facebook. The boy's father estimated the age of the fossil.

The fossil markings suggest that the specimen found is most likely Rugosa coral. Its age is estimated from 251 to 488 million years.

“The period of their existence was from 500 to 251million years ago, in the Paleozoic era, - explains Vish Singh - England at that time was part of Pangea, a land made up of continents. Besides, England was covered with water part of the time. "

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Let's remember, rugosa, or four-rayedcorals, or tetracorals, are a subclass or order of extinct marine cnidarians from the class of coral polyps. The group was widespread in the Paleozoic. As a rule, they lived in the shelf zone and had increased requirements for temperature and water transparency.

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