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Description: | This half of the oyster is the flat upper shell (the lower shell would have been cemented to the seabed, or other oysters). Liostrea lived in shallow coastal waters including the intertidal zone (the area between high and low tide) where they often formed large colonies. Its thick shell provided protection in the high-energy (rough water) environment. It fed on plankton and other microscopic food particles that it filtered out of the sea-water. | 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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