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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Michelinia tenuisepta, collected from the Carboniferous Limestone (?) of Early (?) Carboniferous, Dinantian (?), Visean (?) age.
This fossil shows part of the colonial (living as a group) coral Michelinia with its six-sided corallites (individual coral skeletons). A living coral polyp occupied a cup-shaped hollow at the top of each tube. The polyp was similar to a sea anemone with a mouth in the centre of a ring of tentacles, which it used to capture small animals as food. Like most corals it lived attached to 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 | 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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