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Description: | Specimens of fossil brachiopods (lamp shells) including Stenoscisma schlotheimi and Orbiculoidea konincki and bryozoan Fenestella retiformis, collected from the Raisby Formation of Late Permian, Zechstein (Durham Province), EZ1 age from East Thickley, Shildon, Co Durham (NE England). Collected by Reed.
Stenoscisma schlotheimi is a brachiopod (lamp shell), that lived on a reef off the coast in the Zechstein sea 250 million years ago. It attached itself to the sea floor with a pedicle, a thin muscle that came out through a small hole in the top of its shell. Orbiculoidea konincki (the round white shell) is an inarticulate brachiopod, meaning that its two shells are held together only by muscles (most brachiopods have a hinge at the top of the shells, which helps to keep the shells together).
The specimen was found in Co Durham.
It is from the Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Reed 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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