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Description: | Cystiphylloides was a solitary coral, which means that a single coral animal (also known as a polyp) lived inside a horn-shaped corallum. This is the name that is given to the hard calcite 'skeleton' in which polyps live. This coral had absent or very short septa, of which there are usually six, or multiples of six inside the corallite, the tube that the polyp lives in. Instead, this coral had blister shaped dissepiments, which are formed by the polyp as it grows, to cut off the lower part of the corallite. | 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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