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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, a Slipper coral, Calceola sandalina, collected from unspecified rocks of Middle Devonian age from Eifel, Rhine, Germany.
Calceola sandalina is also known as the slipper coral because it can look like the toe of a slipper. It was a solitary coral (it lived on its own) that is semicircular in section (most solitary corals are circular). Corals were animals that looked a bit like small sea anemones and are called polyps. They lived inside hard structures made of the mineral calcite, which is the part of a coral that is preserved as a fossil. This coral is only found in rocks of Devonian age.
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 | 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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