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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Cleiothyridina pectinifera, 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.
Cleiothyridina pectinifera 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. The reef was teeming with life, so there was a plentiful supply of food. This brachiopod attached itself to the sea floor with a pedicle, a long thin muscle that came out through a small hole at the top of one of the shells. These shellfish are often found grouped together. These groups are known as nests.
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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