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Description: | Specimen of a fossil sponge, Verruculina reussii, collected from the Flamborough Chalk Formation of Late Cretaceous, Santonian - Campanian age from Flamborough, East Yorkshire (NE England).
This dish-shaped sponge was anchored to the sea floor by a stem. It lived in a quiet, low-energy area of a warm shallow sea. The sponge pumped water through its wall, from the outside into the centre of the dish and fed on the tiny particles of food that it filtered out of it.
The specimen was found in Yorkshire.
It is from the Cretaceous period (144 - 65 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Porifera Spongida | 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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