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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Terebratula grandis, collected from the Red Crag of Quaternary, Early Pleistocene age from Suffolk (SE England). Collected by William K. Loftus.
In life, this brachiopod was attached to the sea floor by a pedicle (fleshy stalk) that grew through the hole in the point of the larger shell. Terebratula usually lived in gravel communities where the water was up to 50m deep. It fed on tiny food particles that it filtered out of the water. The species grew up to 11cm long in its 5 to 7 year life span and is the largest terebratulid brachiopod ever known.
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 Articulata Terebratulida Brachipoda William K. Loftus | 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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