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Description: | This round fossil is a colonial coral and is made up of many individual corallites that have fused together to form a framework of angular tubes. A close look at the tubes shows the small holes where the soft-bodied coral polyps lived. The coral polyp fed by catching food particles out of the sea water with its tentacles. Alveolaria lived in warm water which was dominated by bivalves and gastropods at about 10 - 15 metre depths. | 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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