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Description: | The thick shell of this sea snail is covered with spines and has a well-developed canal (groove) below the body chamber. The canal provided protection for a siphon (tube) that took water into the snail's body. Clavilithes was a scavenger and a predator that fed on dead animals and living bivalve shells that lived on the seabed. It was part of a community of animals living in a 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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