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Description: | The head, thoracic (chest) segments and tail of Meyeria have been well preserved in a clay nodule that formed around its body as the soft parts decayed. Like living relatives, the prawn was a free swimming animal that fed on food particles that it collected from sea water. The number of fossils discovered and the lobster-like appearance of Meyeria, has resulted in the layer of rocks that it is found in being called the Lobster Beds. | 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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