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Description: | The shells of this brachiopod are gently convex (outward curving). The umbo (pointed end) of one shell was cemented (glued) to the sea floor so that the rounded edge of the shell faced upwards. Schellwienella lived in clear, warm shallow, tropical seas with sandy floors. Fossils are often found in sandstone, like this specimen, as well as limestone. Like all brachiopods it fed on 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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