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Description: | This is the skeleton of a fossil coral composed of the mineral Calcite (calcium carbonate). Corals are generally found in clear, sunlit, shallow tropical seas. This is a compound coral which means that when alive, it would have been home to hundreds of tiny animals living together and building up the coral skeleton. | 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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