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Description: | The shells of this brachiopod are gently convex. The umbo (pointed end) of one shell was cemented to a hard sea floor so that the rounded margin 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 in 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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