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Description: | Silurian corals, like their present day descendants, show many different growth forms. Some grew in large colonies and formed cushion-shaped mounds. Others grew solitary cone-shaped skeletons. Thamnopora is an example of a colonial coral which grew branch-like skeletons. These were small fragile corals and may have lived in the more sheltered parts of the Silurian reef. | 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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