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Description: | This fossil coral has the common name of 'Organ pipe coral'. The skeleton consists of separate calcium carbonate tubes held together by cross tubes (called stolons). When the coral was alive, a polyp (looking like a small sea anemone), would have lived in the top of each tube. These polyps would have had tentacles to enable them to capture small animals drifting or swimming in the warm, tropical, Silurian sea. This coral is also found in rocks of Carboniferous age suggesting that it survived over a time interval exceeding 130 million years. | 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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