| P number: | P521080 |
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| Caption: | A fossil specimen of Conularia tenuis Slater. A fossil coral. (Coelenterata, Anthozoa, Zoantharia.) Glencartholm, Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. |
| Description: | Conularia tenuis is a marine coral (coelenterate) with a conical skeleton, 6-10 cms long, of tetramerous symmetry, consisting of a thin chitinophosphatic wall. British Geological Survey Biostratigraphy Collection number GSE 4600. The animal was probably attached to substrate at its apical end allowing it to feed using grasping tentacles for prey capture. This specimen is from the Carboniferous Calciferous Sandstone Series. Corals have mobile larvae that become sessile (fixed to one place) after a few days. They have a soft body called a polyp that lives in a calcareous skeleton called a corallum. Corals are used in biostratigraphy where short-lived fossils are used to date the rocks in which they are found. Figd. I.L.Slater, mon. Brit. Con. pl. 2, fig.1. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 196.09 KB; 1000 x 665 pixels; 85 x 56 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 176 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Fossils |
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