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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Alveolites spongites, collected from unspecified rocks of Early Devonian age from Steinbrech, Germany.
Alveolites was a colonial coral (meaning that it lived with lots of other corals in a colony), which had a calcareous (calcium carbonate) skeleton. Each polyp, which looked like a small sea anemone, lived inside a tube known as a corallite. The corallites of Alveolites had an oval or kidney shaped cross-section.
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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