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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Dibunophyllum splendens, collected from the Great Scar Limestone Group (?) of Early (?) Carboniferous, Namurian (?) age.
The specimen is a polished section through the tube-shaped skeleton of the solitary coral Dibunophyllum (one that doesn't share a skeleton structure with other corals) that had a curved cone-shaped skeleton. The structure of the coral skeleton is easy to see with a pattern of long and short septa (walls) around the margin. Differences in the number and patterns of the septa are used to identify different coral species. Like most corals it lived in warm shallow seas near the equator.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Anthozoa Coelenterata Classification: Animalia Invertebrata | Temporal: | Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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