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Description: | In life, the surface of this fossil coral would have been covered with hundreds of coral polyps. These must have made the Silurian seabed blaze with patches of vivid colour. When the coral polyps died, their soft remains decayed away. Only the hard calcium carbonate skeleton remained to become fossilised and form part of the limestone rocks that underlie much of the town of Dudley. | 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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