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Description: | Specimen of a fossil nautiloid, Peripetoceras freieslebeni, collected from the Ford Formation (reef facies) of Late Permian, Zechstein (Durham Province), EZ1 age from Sunderland (?), Tyne and Wear (NE England).
Peripetoceras freieslebeni was similar to Nautilus which lives in the Pacific Ocean. In north east England, during the Permian period, there was a reef made of fan-shaped bryozoans (moss animals). You can see part of this reef at Tunstall Hill near Sunderland. Approximately 250 million years ago, Sunderland was only 12 degrees North of the Equator (today, as a result of continental drift, it is nearer 55 degrees North), so the sea was very warm. Peripetoceras freieslebeni was one of the creatures that lived in this reef.
The specimen was found in Tyne and Wear.
It is from the Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Cephalopoda Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Nautiloidea Mollusca | Temporal: | Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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