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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Schellwienella crenistria, collected from the Upper Limestone Group of Early Carboniferous, Namurian, Pendleian age from Shaftoe Crags, Northumberland (NE England).
The shells of this brachiopod are gently convex (outward curving). The umbo (pointed end) of one shell was cemented (glued) to the sea floor so that the rounded edge of the shell faced upwards. Schellwienella lived in clear, warm shallow, tropical seas with sandy floors. Fossils are often found in sandstone, like this specimen, as well as limestone. Like all brachiopods it fed on food particles that it filtered out of the water.
The specimen was found in Northumberland.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Brachiopoda Invertebrata Articulata | Temporal: | Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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