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Description: | This fossils sponge shows many features that are typical of the group including a sack like body, a central opening and pores. Its flask-shaped body has very clear folds in its wall and was attached to the sea floor by a stalk. The sponge lived in a quiet low-energy area of a warm shallow sea. It pumped water through its wall, from the outside into the body sack and fed on the particles of food that it filtered out of it. | 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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