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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Alveolites sp., collected from unspecified rocks of Middle Devonian age from Bradley, near Newton, Devon (SW England).
Alveolites was a colonial coral (meaning that it lived with lots of other corals in a colony) that lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods. Colonial corals have a hard framework, made of the mineral calcite, in which there are many small tubes (corallites). Coral animals, which are also known as polyps, and look a bit like small sea anemones, live inside these tubes. The corallites show up here as slightly darker small spots, in the white, wavy part of this specimen.
The specimen was found in Devon.
It is from the Devonian period (418 - 362 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Anthozoa Coelenterata Classification: Animalia Invertebrata | Temporal: | Devonian period (418 - 362 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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