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Description: | Specimen of a fossil gastropod, Clavilithes macrospira Cossmann, collected from the Barton Group, Barton Clay Formation of Tertiary, Middle Eocene, Lutetian - Bartonian age from Hordwick, Isle of Wight, Hampshire (SE England). Collected by Edward Charlesworth.
This shallow water sea snail has a smooth shell with growth lines and a well-developed canal (groove) below the body chamber. The canal provided protection for a siphon (tube) that took water into the snail's body. Fusinus was a scavenger and a predator that fed on dead animals and living bivalves that lived on the seabed. It was part of a community of animals living in a shallow subtropical sea.
The specimen was found in Hampshire.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Charlesworth Gastropoda Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Edward 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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