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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Kodonophyllum truncatum, collected from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of Early Silurian, Wenlock, Homerian age from Wren's Nest, Dudley, West Midlands (Midland England). Collected by J. Goring.
Take an ice-cream cornet and bend it slightly. Next, stick the pointed end into the seabed and place a sea anemone in the top. This will then give you some idea of what these fossil corals might have looked like when alive. There were hundreds of different kinds of coral living in the tropical Silurian sea which must have made the seabed very colourful.
The specimen was found in West Midlands.
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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