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Description: | This mass of tube-shaped coral skeletons is part of the colonial coral Lithostrotion (a group of corals living together). A living coral polyp would have occupied a cup shaped hollow at the top of each tube. The polyp looked like a sea anemone with a mouth in the centre of a ring of tentacles that it used to capture small animals as food. Like most corals it lived on the floor of warm shallow seas near the equator. | 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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