Urban fossils of Winnipeg

Manitoba Museum

Tyndall Stone
Location: façade and interior walls
Age: Ordovician
Fossils: burrows, corals, cephalopods, stromatoporoids, etc.

Information and photographs: Graham Young

Additional information: THE FOSSILS SURROUND US, by Graham Young
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Tyndall Stone on the façade with an orthoconic cephalopod

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Hallway near the lifts, clad in Tyndall Stone slabs

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Darker mottles represent burrows made by arthropods and worms, whereas the white structure to the lower left is a coral colony

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Stromatoporoid

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Coral colony (right)

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Rugose coral (beside the water fountain)

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Coral colony (white) growing on top of a stromatoporoid (brown, laminated)

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Cephalopod shell