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Description: | This fossil shows part of the colonial (living as a group) coral Michelinia with its six-sided corallites (individual coral skeletons). A living coral polyp occupied a cup-shaped hollow at the top of each tube. The polyp was similar to a sea anemone with a mouth in the centre of a ring of tentacles, which it used to capture small animals as food. Like most corals it lived attached to the floor of 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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