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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Schellwienella crenistria, collected from the Fell Sandstone Group of Early Carboniferous, Namurian, Pendleian age from Black Pasture Quarry, Wall (near), Northumberland (NE England). Collected by W.D. Dinning.
The shells of this brachiopod are gently convex. The umbo (pointed end) of one shell was cemented to a hard sea floor so that the rounded margin 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 in 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: | W.D. Dinning 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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