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Description: | The slightly convex thin scallop shell has prominent wings and is covered with radiating ribs that strengthen it. Pecten lived freely on the seabed and fed on tiny food particles that it filtered out of the water. It could also swim by 'clapping' its two shells together but usually only did so to escape from predators. The hole in the shell was made by a predatory gastropod so that it could feed on scallop's soft body. | 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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