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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve, Epicyprina angulata, collected from the Lower Greensand Group, Hythe Formation of Early Cretaceous, Aptian age from Hythe, Kent (SE England).
The shell of this fossil bivalve has been dissolved away leaving a cast of the inside of the shell. Epicyprina probably lived in a burrow on a sandy seabed. The rocks that it was found in were deposited in shallow coastal water which supported lots of different kinds of bivalve shells. It was a filter feeder that extracted food particles out of the water. Some of the markings on this cast show the position of major muscles and other soft organs inside the shell.
The specimen was found in Kent.
It is from the Cretaceous period (144 - 65 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Bivalvia Mollusca | 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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