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Description: | Specimen of a fossil annelid (worm tube), Serpula sp., collected from unspecified rocks of Tertiary (?) age.
The soft bodies of worms are not usually preserved as fossils. All that is usually left is the hard calcareous (made of calcite) tubes that the worms live inside. Serpula belongs to the same family as earthworms and lived in a similar way burrowing through sediment on the sea floor. It fed on food particles found in the sediment. They often occur in great numbers and were an important part of the food chain in most seafloor communities.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Polychaetae Annelida Vermes | 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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