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Description: | This marine (sea living) snail has an unusual shell coiled in a flat spiral with a keel (ridge) around its midline. There is a slit near the end of mid line that housed a siphon (tube) which pumped out water after the snail had extracted oxygen from it. The shell is thick and heavily built suggesting that the snail lived in a high-energy (rough water) shoreline environment. Bellerophon was probably a herbivore and grazed on algae that grew on the sea floor. | 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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