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Description: | Spirifer is a common Carboniferous brachiopod (lamp shell) that is easily recognised by its long straight hinge line (the line between the shells at the hinge) and large fold along the midline of its shell. Spirifer lived attached to the sea floor by a fleshy stalk known as a pedicle. It lived in clear waters in the deeper parts of warm, shallow, tropical seas and is often found in reef communities. It fed on small particles of food 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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