Subfossil Hard Pillar Coral (IMAGE)

Florida Atlantic University

Subfossil Hard Pillar Coral

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A closeup of a well-preserved Late Holocene hard pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus), now genetically extinct along the Florida reef tract due to a disease outbreak in 2014. 

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Florida Atlantic University

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