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Description: | This common, warm water bivalve shell has an ornament of smooth ribs. Inoceramus lived on the surface of the seabed in colonies. The shells were attached to each other and sometimes to rocks by a tough bunch of threads known as a byssus. The bivalve fed on tiny food particles that it filtered out of sea water. This shell is very commonly found in chalk rocks of southern England. | 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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