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College Green Hotel

College Green Hotel

Site Details

Location
College Green Hotel
Grid reference
53.34561, -6.25838
Fossil Name
Brachiopods, bivalves, corals, sponges and gastropods
Fossil Type
Various marine animals (shells and other invertebrate animals – without backbones)
Fossil Age
Jurassic and Carboniferous
Rock Type
Limestone
Access Info
Urban Sites street frontage. 
Fossil Info
The upper parts of the walls of the building are a cream-coloured conglomerate with lots of small fossils, including small gastropods, bivalves, fragments of coralline algae and sponges, as with the CCT building next door. The lower parts of the walls are a dark grey Irish limestone, with large brachiopods and corals

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Ireland's Fossil Heritage

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, T23 TK30,

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