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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Terebratula sp., collected from unspecified rocks of Tertiary age.
This oval brachiopod (lamp shell) has a smooth shell with fine regularly spaced growth lines. It lived in a warm, shallow sea where it was attached to the sea floor by a pedicle (fleshy stalk) that grew through the round hole in the pointed tip of the shell. It fed on microscopic animals and tiny food particles that it filtered out of the water.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Brachiopoda Invertebrata | 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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