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Description: | Specimen of a fossil crustacean (lobster), Meyeria sp., collected from the Forbesi Zone = Fissicostatus Zone, Atherfield Clay Formation of Early Cretaceous, Early Aptian age from Atherfield, Isle of Wight, Hampshire (SE England). Collected by David M. Lumsden.
The head, thoracic (chest) segments and tail of Meyeria have been well preserved in a clay nodule that formed around its body as the soft parts decayed. Like living relatives, the prawn was a free swimming animal that fed on food particles that it collected from sea water. The number of fossils discovered and the lobster-like appearance of Meyeria, has resulted in the layer of rocks that it is found in being called the Lobster Beds.
The specimen was found in Hampshire.
It is from the Cretaceous period (144 - 65 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia, Invertebrata, Arthropoda, Crustacea Lumsden, David M. | Temporal: | Cretaceous period (144 - 65 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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