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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Pterospirifer alatus, collected from the Ford Formation (reef facies) of Late Permian, Zechstein (Durham Province), EZ1 age from Humbledon Hill, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (NE England). Collected by James Walter Kirkby.
Pterospirifer alatus was a brachiopod (lamp shell) that lived on a reef in the warm, Zechstein Sea 250 million years ago. This sea streched from what is now north east England to Germany and Poland. This brachiopod attached itself to the sea floor with a pedicle, a long thin muscle that came out through a small hole in the top of one of the shells. The width of the shells would have helped to keep the brachiopod stable. Fossils of these shells are usually found singly, so this brachiopod was probably a solitary creature.
The specimen was found in Tyne and Wear.
It is from the Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Kirkby Brachiopoda Invertebrata Articulata James Walter | Temporal: | Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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