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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve, Edmondia elongata, collected from the Ford Formation (reef facies) of Late Permian, Zechstein (Durham Province), EZ1 age from Tunstall Hill, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (NE England). Collected by James Walter Kirkby.
This bivalve (meaning two valves or shells), lived on a reef, a community teeming with life, forming a ridge close to the coastline, in the Zechstein Sea, 250 million years ago. This Sea stretched from what is now north east England over to Northern Germany and Poland. Edmondia elongata lived in a shallow burrow in the seabed, and fed on tiny animals and plants in the sea water.
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: | Kirkby, James Walter Classification: Animalia, Invertebrata, Mollusca, Bivalvia | 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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