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Description: | Specimen of a fossil cephalopod, Orthoceras sp., collected from the Carboniferous Limestone of Early Carboniferous, Dinantian, Visean (?) age from Closeburn, Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire (Scotland). Collected by Thomas Sopwith.
The specimen is part of an orthocone and shows the internal septa (walls) and chambers of the shell. The animal was similar to a squid and lived in the largest last chamber of the shell. Orthocones swam using jet propulsion, forcing water out of its body. It was carnivorous and fed mainly on shrimps, crabs and fish they caught in their tentacles. The specimen was found by the famous eighteenth century Newcastle geologist and mining engineer Thomas Sopwith.
The specimen was found in Dumfries and Galloway.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Cephalopoda Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Nautiloidea Mollusca Thomas Sopwith | 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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