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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Syringopora ramulosa Goldfuss, collected from the Carboniferous Limestone (?) of Early Carboniferous, Dinantian, Visean age from Otterburn, Northumberland (NE England). Collected by William K. Loftus.
This mass of slender tube-shaped corallites (coral skeletons) is part of the colonial coral Syringopora. The corallites are joined together at regular intervals by smaller connecting tubes that strengthen the colony. A living coral polyp, similar to a sea anemone, occupied a cup shaped hollow at the top of each tube. Like most corals it lived on the floor of warm shallow seas near the equator.
The specimen was found in Northumberland.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Anthozoa Coelenterata Classification: Animalia Invertebrata William K. Loftus | Temporal: | Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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