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Description: | Specimen of a fossil annelid (worm), Serpula sp., collected from the Chalk Formation of Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian - Campanian age from Sussex (SE England). Collected by P. Walther.
The soft bodies of worms are rarely preserved as fossils. However, the hard calcareous (made of the mineral calcite) tubes that the worms secreted to strengthen its burrow, are often preserved. Serpula belongs to the same family as earthworms and lived in a similar manner on the sea floor. It fed on food particles found in the sediment that it ate. They often occur in great numbers and were a critical part of the food chain in most seafloor communities.
The specimen was found in Sussex.
It is from the Cretaceous period (144 - 65 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Polychaetae Annelida Vermes P. Walther | Temporal: | Cretaceous period (144 - 65 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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