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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve, Corbicula cuneiformis, collected from the Lambeth Group, Woolwich Formation of Tertiary, Late Palaeocene, Thanetian age from Woolwich, London (SE England).
This oval bivalve seashell has equally sized thin convex (outward curving) shells with growth lines. Corbicula lived in a shallow burrow on the seabed with its shell in a vertical position. It fed on food particles that it filtered out of the water. This sample shows many single shells lying horizontally in amongst lots of shell fragments. This shows that the shells have been washed together after they died (known as a death assemblage). Such assemblages are often created during storms that disturb the sediments where the bivalves live.
The specimen was found in London.
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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