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Description: | This colonial (a group living together) coral skeleton shows three complete corallites (hard tubes) that provided protection for the soft-bodied coral polyp, which looked like a sea anemone The coral fed by collecting food particles out of sea water in its tentacles. Balanophyllia usually occurs in warm shallow water communities that are dominated by bivalves and gastropods, in 10 to 15m deep water. | 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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