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Description: | Specimen of a fossil crustacean, Pygocephalus cooperi, collected from the Lower Similis - Pulchra Zone, Middle Coal Measures of Late Carboniferous, Westphalian, Duckmantian age from Seaton Sluice (?), Hartley, Northumberland (NE England). Collected by Mrs E. Mackie.
This specimen is a fossil of a primitive shrimp and shows the three main parts of its soft shell (carapace) that is made out of chitin, a material similar to finger nails. The head with two antennae is on the right, the thorax (upper body) and several pairs of legs in the centre, and the large abdomen to the left. Such shrimps lived in fresh and salt water and were probably scavengers that fed on organic debris found on lake and sea floors.
The specimen was found in Northumberland.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Crustacea E. Arthropoda Mrs Mackie | Temporal: | Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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