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Description: | Calceola sandalina is also known as the slipper coral because it can look like the toe of a slipper. It was a solitary coral (it lived on its own) that is semicircular in section (most solitary corals are circular). Corals were animals that looked a bit like small sea anemones and are called polyps. They lived inside hard structures made of the mineral calcite, which is the part of a coral that is preserved as a fossil. This coral is only found in rocks of Devonian age. | 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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