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Description: | The photograph shows two views of a complete brachiopod (lamp shell). To the left is a view of the front of the shell. On the right is a side view showing more clearly the two halves of the shell joined together. The shell protected the soft parts of the animal from predation. Brachiopods were attached to the seabed by a stalk (called a pedicle). They fed by filtering particles of food from the sea water. | 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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