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Description: | This oval brachiopod (lamp shell) has a smooth shell with fine regularly spaced growth lines. It lived in a warm, shallow sea where it was attached to the sea floor by a pedicle (fleshy stalk) that grew through the round hole in the pointed tip of the shell. It fed on microscopic animals and tiny food particles that it filtered out of the 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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