A small Desmophyllum cup coral (scleractinian) growing off a boulder. This isthe species of coral that the expedition was looking for fossilized traces of as this type of coral has grown on these type of seamounts for over 20,000 years.
4/10/2019 1:04:44 PM
Credit: North Atlantic Stepping Stones Science Party, IFE, URI-IAO; NOAA/OAR/OER