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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Favosites sp., collected from unspecified rocks of Devonian age from Bensberg, Germany. Collected by W.K. Loftus.
Favosites is also known as honeycomb coral, because the pattern formed by the corallites (the small tubes) looks a bit like the hexagonal (six-sided) pattern of a honeycomb. The corallites are tubes made of the mineral calcite. Hundreds of these tubes are joined together to form the Favosites colony (Favosites is a colonial coral). A small coral animal or polyp (which looked a bit like a small sea anemone) would have lived in each of the corallites. In this fossil you can see the hexagonal corallites all joined together like a honeycomb. However if you look at the side of the fossil you can see that each one of these is actually a long tube.
The specimen was found in Germany.
It is from the Devonian period (418 - 362 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Anthozoa Coelenterata Classification: Animalia Invertebrata William K. Loftus | 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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