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Description: | This fossil is a gastropod (sea snail). Gastropods lived inside coiled shells. Purpuroidea crawled over the surface of the seabed, as it searched for food, on a muscular 'foot' that protruded from the hole in its shell. This gastropod is often found in rocks that were formed in areas where the sea floor was unstable. These were conditions that many other animals would not have been able to survive. | 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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