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Description: | The shell of this fossil bivalve has been dissolved away leaving a cast of the inside of the shell. Epicyprina probably lived in a burrow on a sandy seabed. The rocks that it was found in were deposited in shallow coastal water which supported lots of different kinds of bivalve shells. It was a filter feeder that extracted food particles out of the water. Some of the markings on this cast show the position of major muscles and other soft organs inside the shell. | 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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