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Description: | Alveolites was a colonial coral (meaning that it lived with lots of other corals in a colony) that lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods. Colonial corals have a hard framework, made of the mineral calcite, in which there are many small tubes (corallites). Coral animals, which are also known as polyps, and look a bit like small sea anemones, live inside these tubes. The corallites show up here as slightly darker small spots, in the white, wavy part of this specimen. | 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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