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Description: | These mussels lived in shallow, freshwater lakes and brackish (slightly salty) water lagoons that formed when coastal, coal forming forests were flooded. Like present day mussels they lived in large colonies. They formed important 'mussel bands' in Coal Measures rocks and some can be used to identify individual coal seams. The specimen is from the 'mussel band' that occurred in the roof of the Busty Seam. | 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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