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Description: | This tooth is one of many that made up the lower jaw-plate of a bull-nosed ray fish. The jaw-plates were used to crush shellfish and crustaceans so that the ray fish was able to feed on their soft bodies when they were swallowed. Present day rays live mainly in warm shallow subtropical seas in water up to 50m deep. The tooth was found in rocks that contain a rich community of bivalve seashells and sea snails, the type of environment that living ray fish are found. | 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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