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Description: | Specimen of a fossil coral, Astrhelia palmata, collected from the Choptank Formation of Tertiary, Miocene age from Calvert County, Maryland, U.S.A.. Collected by David M. Lumsden.
The individual coral animals (polyps) lived in the small holes seen here. It lived successfully in high-energy (rough water) reef environments. The coral polyp looked like a sea anemone with a mouth in the centre surrounded by a ring of tentacles that it used to collect tiny animals for food. Like most reef-building corals it lived in warm shallow tropical seas.
The specimen was found in USA.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | David M. Anthozoa Coelenterata Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Lumsden | Temporal: | Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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