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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve, Anthracosia robusta, collected from the Modiolus Zone, Lower Coal Measures, Busty Seam of Late Carboniferous, Westphalian, Langsettian age from Derwent Pit, Medomsley, Co Durham (NE England).
These mussels lived in shallow, freshwater lakes and brackish (slightly salty) water lagoons that formed when coastal, coal forming forests were flooded. Like present day mussels they lived in large colonies. They formed important 'mussel bands' in Coal Measures rocks and some can be used to identify individual coal seams. The specimen is from the 'mussel band' that occurred in the roof of the Busty Seam.
The specimen was found in Co Durham.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Bivalvia Mollusca | 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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