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Description: | These slender, screw-shaped shells have a small body chamber where the actual snail animal lived. Living forms of Turitella burrow into the seabed at a low angle so that the soft body is level with the sea floor. This snail is a suspension feeder meaning that it lived off microscopic food particles that it filtered out of the sea water. It lived in shallow coastal waters often in large colonies, and many shells are often found preserved together, as shown here. | 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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