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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish (tooth), Myliobatis sp., collected from the Barton Group (?) of Tertiary, Middle Eocene, Lutetian - Bartonian age from Barton, Bournemouth, Hampshire (SE England). Collected by William K. Loftus.
This tooth is one of many that made up the lower jaw-plate of a bull-nosed ray fish. The jaw-plates were used to crush shellfish and crustaceans so that the ray fish was able to feed on their soft bodies when they were swallowed. Present day rays live mainly in warm shallow subtropical seas in water up to 50m deep. The tooth was found in rocks that contain a rich community of bivalve seashells and sea snails, the type of environment that living ray fish are found.
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: Chordata Pisces William K. Loftus | 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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