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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve (mussel), Potomida littoralis, collected from the Lower Barnwell Gravel of Quaternary, Holocene, Flandrian age from Barnwell, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (SE England). Collected by A.G. Dew-Smith.
This living bivalve is better known by its earlier name of Unio littoralis. The equally sized shells are covered in growth lines. It lived on or partly buried in the surface of freshwater sediments and fed on tiny food particles that it filtered out of the water. Potomida has an unusual life cycle; its larvae are parasitic and live on fish before they emerge as young animals, which helps distribute the mussel.
The specimen was found in Cambridgeshire.
It is from the Quaternary period (1.8 - 0 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Dew-Smith Bivalvia Mollusca A.G. | 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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