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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Strophalosia sp., collected from unspecified rocks of Early Silurian, Llandovery - Wenlock age from Ohio River, U.S.A.. Collected by McChesney.
Brachiopods (lamp shells) live attached to the seabed and feed by filtering particles of food from sea water. The body of the brachiopod is enclosed by two shells composed of calcium carbonate. Such shells often have a spectacular pattern of very fine ridges, as shown by this specimen. Although this specimen was collected from America, the same species can also be collected from Silurian rocks exposed in England and Wales.
The specimen was found in USA.
It is from the Silurian period (443 - 418 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Brachiopoda Invertebrata McChesney | 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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