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Description: | Specimen of a fossil scaphopod (tusk shell), Antalis striata J. Sowerby, collected from the Bracklesham Group - Barton Group of Tertiary, Early - Middle Eocene, Ypresian - Bartonian age from Barton, Bournemouth, Hampshire (SE England).
These tube-shaped mollusc shells are covered with fine striations (lines) that give the species its name. Living Scaphopods burrow into sandy seabeds using a flat digging foot in the wider end of the shell. Feeding tentacles also extend out of the wide end of the shell and collect tiny single-cell organisms for food. The narrow tapering end of the shell sticks out of the seabed and contains siphons (tubes) that suck in and expel (squirt out) water.
The specimen was found in Hampshire.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Scaphopoda Invertebrata 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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