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Description: | The globe shaped shell gives this sea snail its classified name. The soft body of the snail filled the last coil of the shell with the round opening. Globularia was a predator that fed on bivalves that lived buried in the surface of the sea floor. It was part of a rich and varied bivalve-gastropod fauna shallow that lived in a warm shallow subtropical sea. | 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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