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Description: | Specimen of a fossil sponge, Ventriculites sp., collected from the Chalk Formation (?) of Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian - Campanian age.
The original structure of this sponge fragment is well preserved with abundant large pores at the top of cone shaped swellings. The sponge lived in a quiet, low-energy area of a warm shallow sea. It pumped water through its wall, from the outside into the body sack and fed on the tiny particles of food that it filtered out of it.
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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