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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Palaeocyclus sp., collected from the Kendal Group (?), Windermere Supergroup of Silurian, Ludlow age from Kendal, Cumbria (NW England). Collected by J. Goring.
These two photographs show different views of the small coral Palaeocyclus. In life, the bowl-shaped skeleton would have been attached to the seabed. A sea anemone-like animal would have lived in the flattened top of the coral, using its tentacles to trap and capture animals swimming in the sea water. After death, the soft parts of the animal decayed away. The calcium carbonate skeleton of the coral remained to become fossilised.
The specimen was found in Cumbria.
It is from the Silurian period (443 - 418 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Anthozoa Coelenterata Classification: Animalia Invertebrata J. Goring | Temporal: | Silurian period (443 - 418 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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