Anthozoa Gallery

Fungia, coral

Fungia is a free-living scleractinian coral. In this large example, almost 10 cm in diameter, from the Pleistocene of Yemen, the concave upperside (image 47365) is fouled by serpulid worms and bryozoans

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

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Drawing labelled Sponge and coral

Drawing by Thomas Malie. Thomas Malie, a surgeon to the King's Dragoon Guards, sailed to the West Indies during the course of his military service and made detailed drawings of local flora and fauna

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

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Carboniferous limestone sea

Bridget Kempster's impression of a shallow coral Carboniferous (354 to 290 million years ago) limestone sea, depicting fish and an abundance of crinoids and coral

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

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