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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Spiriferina walcotti, collected from the Lower Lias of Early Jurassic age from Bath, Avon (SW England).
Spiriferina walcotti is a brachiopod (lamp shell). Shell fish like this one would have lived in groups on the sea floor, which they attached themselves to with a pedicle, a long thin muscle that protruded from a hole at the top of one of the shells. The lower edge of the shell has a wavy surface, which looks a bit like the edge of a Cornish pasty.
The specimen was found in Avon.
It is from the Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Brachiopoda Invertebrata Articulata | Temporal: | Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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