The Wenlock Reef
This model of the Wenlock reef shows it as it would have looked when it was alive 420 million years ago.
Use your mouse to have a look around and identify the different creatures living on and around the reef. Click to find out more about each type of creature.
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- area 1
Crinoids such as this Gissocrinus extend their delicate ‘arms’ into the water to feed. - area 2
Heliolites, a colonial tabulate coral and other solitary and colonial corals, with a trilobite (Calymene) - area 3
A trilobite, Illaenus, searching for food amongst reef debris. - area 4
A gastropod grazing on fragments of broken crinoids and corals. - area 5
A cross section through the reef showing the old, dead skeletons of reef builders forming the reef mound. - area 6
Solitary coral Omphyma - area 7
A trilobite, Sphaerexochus, crawls over reef-building corals and stromatoporoids.
