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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Stringocephalus burtini de France, collected from unspecified rocks of Devonian age from Bensburg, Rhine, Germany. Collected by W.K. Loftus.
Stringocephalus burtini was a brachiopod (lamp shell) that lived during the middle part of the Devonian period, approximately 390 million years ago. This brachiopod would have attached itself to the sea floor using a pedicle, a thin muscle that came out through a hole at the top of one of its shells. These shells usually measure 6 to 10 centimetres long.
The specimen was found in Germany.
It is from the Devonian period (418 - 362 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Brachiopoda Invertebrata Articulata William K. Loftus | Temporal: | Devonian period (418 - 362 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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