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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve, Glycymeris sp., collected from unspecified rocks of Tertiary age.
This common round bivalve shell has equally sized convex (outward curving) shells with ribs on the outside. Glycimeris lived in a vertical position buried in the surface of a sandy seabed. The two shells have remained locked together which suggests that this specimen was probably buried alive in its burrow. It lived in shallow coastal water including the intertidal zone (the area between high and low tide) and fed on tiny food particles that it filtered out of the sea water.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Bivalvia Mollusca | Temporal: | Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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