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Description: | The cone-shaped skeleton of the solitary coral (one that doesn't share a skeleton structure with other corals) Zaphrentites was attached to the sea floor at the pointed end. The living coral polyp occupied the cup shaped hollow at the wide end of the cone (left-hand image). The polyp looked like a sea anemone with a mouth in the centre of a ring of tentacles that it used to capture small animals as food. Like most corals it lived in warm shallow seas near the equator. | 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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