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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve, Venericor planicosta, collected from the Bracklesham Group of Tertiary, Early - Middle Eocene, Ypresian - Lutetian age from Bracklesham, Sussex (SE England).
This bivalve had two similar sized convex (outward curving) shells, covered with broad ridges separated by narrow grooves. Venericor lived buried in the surface of the seabed and when it died the shells often separated. It lived in shallow water, including the intertidal zone (the area between high and low tide), where there was a sandy sea floor. The bivalve was part of a rich and varied sub-tropical or tropical community of animals. It fed on tiny food particles that it filtered out of sea water.
The specimen was found in Sussex.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Bivalvia Mollusca | Temporal: | Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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