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Description: | This delicate ridged shell is a fossilised brachiopod. If you look closely, you can see a small circular hole near the top of the shell, which has filled up after the animal died and was buried. Through this small hole, a fleshy anchoring 'stem' known as the pedicle protruded, with which the brachiopod anchored itself to a hard surface on the sea floor. | 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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