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Description: | The thick shell of this spindle shaped sea snail is covered with spiral ribs and has a short canal (groove) below the body chamber. The canal provided protection for a siphon (tube) that took water into the snail's body. The ribbed thick shell shows that the snail was adapted to live in a high-energy (rough water) environment. Euthriofusus 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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