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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve, Inoceramus sp., collected from the Sussex White Chalk Formation of Late Cretaceous, Late Cenomanian - Campanian age from Eastbourne (?), Sussex (SE England). Collected by E.J. Garwood.
This common, warm water bivalve shell has an ornament of smooth ribs. Inoceramus lived on the surface of the seabed in colonies. The shells were attached to each other and sometimes to rocks by a tough bunch of threads known as a byssus. The bivalve fed on tiny food particles that it filtered out of sea water. This shell is very commonly found in chalk rocks of southern England.
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 E.J. Invertebrata Garwood 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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