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Description: | The shape of this sea snail has lead to it commonly being called a fig shell because it looks like the fruit. The coiled shell narrows into a short tube that provided protection for the siphon tube which took water into the snails' body. The snail lived on the muddy floor of a warm, subtropical sea and was part of a rich and varied bivalve and gastropod community. | 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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