|
Date: |
|
Description: | Syringopora was a colonial coral, which consisted of many coral animals (polyps) living together. The polyps looked a bit like small sea anemones, each one living in a separate tube (called a corallite) made of the mineral calcite, which were joined together to form a colony. Corals typically live in warm, clear shallow water, forming a reef, similar to the modern Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. This coral is now extinct. | 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 |
|
More Like this...
-
-
Coral
Heliolites was a colonial coral…
-
-
-
Coral
Frechastraea goldfussi was a colonial…
-
-
-
Coral
Phillipastrea devoniensis was a colonial…
-
-
|