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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve, Venus casina, collected from the Red Crag of Quaternary, Early Pleistocene age from Suffolk (SE England).
The outside of this common bivalve is covered with even-spaced lamellae (ridges). Mya lived in a vertical position in a burrow about 5 centimetres deep on sandy seabeds in coastal areas including the intertidal zone (the area between high and low tide). There is a gap between the two shells where a leathery siphon (tube) reached up to the seabed so that it could suck in water that contained oxygen and food. When the bivalve died its two shells were usually held together by the burrow.
The specimen was found in Suffolk.
It is from the Quaternary period (1.8 - 0 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Bivalvia Mollusca | Temporal: | Quaternary period (1.8 - 0 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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