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Description: | These horn-shaped skeletons of the fossil corals Turbinolia and Caryophyllia were attached to the sea floor at the pointed end. The living coral polyp (animal) lived in the cup-shaped hollow at the wide end of the horn. The polyp looked like a sea anemone with a mouth in the centre surrounded by a ring of tentacles that it used to collect tiny animals for food. Like most corals it probably lived in warm shallow tropical seas. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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