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Description: | Specimen of a fossil gastropod (snail), Loxonema gregaria, collected from the Kendal Group (?), Windermere Supergroup of Late Silurian, Ludlow (?) age from Kendal, Cumbria (NW England). Collected by J. Goring.
The shell of this fossil snail (gastropod) has been dissolved away leaving a natural cast (in mudstone) of the inside of the shell. It is usually very difficult to identify fossil animals when the shell is not preserved. All we can say about this example is that it lived on the bottom of the sea. It possibly fed on dead or decaying plant and animal matter.
The specimen was found in Cumbria.
It is from the Silurian period (443 - 418 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Gastropoda Classification: Animalia Invertebrata J. Mollusca Goring | Temporal: | Silurian period (443 - 418 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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