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Description: | Coral skeletons are very common in limestone rocks of Silurian age. These limestones formed in warm tropical seas. Most of the corals were colonial, living together and forming large mounds or patch reefs on the seabed. A few corals lived singly and Ketophyllum was the biggest of these. A large, colourful, anemone-like animal would have lived in the bowl shaped depression (calice) at the top of the coral. It would have used tentacles to catch and eat other small animals swimming in the sea. | 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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