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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve, Myophorella incurva, collected from the Portland Stone of Late Jurassic, Portlandian age from (?), Dorset (SW England).
This is an internal cast (showing what the inside of the shell looked like), of the bivalve Myophorella incurva. The shells have been dissolved away, leaving a fossil of the inner surface of the shells. Robert Plot, writing in the 17th century, compared these common fossils to horses heads, with large eyes, ears, and a mane. In Dorset, the local dialect translates 'horses heads' into 'osses 'eds.
The specimen was found in Dorset.
It is from the Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Bivalvia Mollusca | Temporal: | Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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