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Description: | This specimen is a fossil of a primitive shrimp and shows the three main parts of its soft shell (carapace) that is made out of chitin, a material similar to finger nails. The head with two antennae is on the right, the thorax (upper body) and several pairs of legs in the centre, and the large abdomen to the left. Such shrimps lived in fresh and salt water and were probably scavengers that fed on organic debris found on lake and sea floors. | 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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