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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Eospirifer radiatus, collected from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of Silurian, Wenlock, Homerian age from Benthall Edge, Ironbridge (near), Shropshire (Midland England). Collected by Emma Smith.
The warm shallow seas which covered parts of the Midlands in the Silurian Period were the home of a wide variety of marine animals. Brachiopods, also called lamp shells, were particularly abundant in all shapes and sizes. This particular fan-shaped shell has a series of very fine ridges fanning out from the back to the front of the shell.
The specimen was found in Shropshire.
It is from the Silurian period (443 - 418 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Smith Brachiopoda Invertebrata Articulata Emma | 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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