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Description: | Specimen of a fossil gastropod, Scaphella lamberti, collected from unspecified rocks of Tertiary, Pliocene age from Lours (?), France.
This smooth spindle-shaped sea snail lived in a warm shallow sea with a soft clay floor. It fed on tiny food particles that it filtered out of the water. A short and pointed groove (canal) is present at the base of the opening in the snail shell. The canal contained and protected a soft tube that carried fresh water and nutrients to the gills and prevented it being mixed up with waste water pumped out of the body.
The specimen was found in France.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Gastropoda Classification: Animalia Invertebrata 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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