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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Cystiphylloides sp., collected from unspecified rocks of Devonian age from ?, Devon (SW England).
Cystiphylloides was a solitary coral, which means that a single coral animal (also known as a polyp) lived inside a horn-shaped corallum. This is the name that is given to the hard calcite 'skeleton' in which polyps live. This coral had absent or very short septa, of which there are usually six, or multiples of six inside the corallite, the tube that the polyp lives in. Instead, this coral had blister shaped dissepiments, which are formed by the polyp as it grows, to cut off the lower part of the corallite.
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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