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Description: | Barnacles are a special type of crustacean (the same group of animals as crabs and lobsters). They are able to live in areas where the sea waves beat against the rocks. They live cemented (stuck) to rocks or the shells of bivalves and other animals on the sea floor. Cyrena is a bivalve shellfish that lived in a burrow. After the bivalve died its two shells separated. The barnacles then grew on the empty shell. Both animals fed on tiny food particles that they filtered out of the sea water. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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