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Description: | The specimen shows part of the colonial coral Lithostrotion. A living coral polyp, similar to a sea anemone, occupied a cup-shaped hollow at the top of each six-sided corallite. The polyp fed on tiny food particles that it caught in the ring of tentacles around its mouth. Like most corals, Lithostrotion lived attached to the floor of warm, clear, shallow seas near the equator and is often found in reefs. | 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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