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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Lingulella ovata M'Coy, collected from the Cautley Mudstone Formation of Ordovician, Ashgill age from ?, Cumbria (NW England). Collected by E.J. Garwood.
Fossil brachiopods such as Lingulella are thought to have lived in burrows within the mud of the seabed. This burrowing life style provided protection from predators and also increased the chances of the shells becoming completely buried and fossilised when the animal died. It is probably the main reason why Lingulella is one of the most common fossils to be found in these Ordovician rocks.
The specimen was found in Cumbria.
It is from the Ordovician period (495 - 443 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia E.J. Brachiopoda Invertebrata Inarticulata Garwood | Temporal: | Ordovician period (495 - 443 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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