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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Lithostrotion vorticale Parkinson, collected from the Carboniferous Limestone (?) of Early Carboniferous, Dinantian (?), Visean (?) age. Collected by N.C. Cookson, 1874.
This fossil shows part of the colonial (living as a group) coral Lithostrotion and a polished section (cut slice) through it. A living coral polyp, similar to a sea anemone, occupied a cup shaped hollow at the top of each corallite (each individual coral skeleton). The cut section through the colony shows a pattern of radiating walls (septa) and circular walls (dissepiments) that are used to identify different coral species. Like most corals, Lithostrotion lived on the floor of 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 Cookson N.C. | 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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