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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Pterospirifer alatus, collected from the Ford Formation (reef facies) of Late Permian, Zechstein (Durham Province), EZ1 age from Humbledon Hill, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (NE England).
Pterospirifer alatus is a brachiopod (lamp shell). This fossil is from the reef (a ridge teeming with life, close to the coast), that existed in the Sunderland area 250 million years ago. It would have lived on the surface of the reef, allowing the nutrient-rich sea water to enter its open shells, from which it would extract the food that it needed.
The specimen was found in Tyne and Wear.
It is from the Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia, Invertebrata, Brachiopoda, Articulata | Temporal: | Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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