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Description: | This thick sea snail shell has a pattern of spiral ridges and vertical ribs on the outside. Athleta lived in warm subtropical shallow coastal waters in a community made up mainly of gastropods and bivalves. It was a predator and a scavenger that fed on live molluscs, dead animals and plants on the sea floor. The snail shell was one of the first British fossils to be given a scientific name using the new Linnean classification system (using a Latin genus and species name) by Daniel Solander in 1766. | 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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