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Description: | Specimen of a fossil gastropod (snail), Bathrotomaria perspectiva, collected from the Sussex White Chalk Formation of Late Cretaceous, Coniacian - Campanian age from Wiltshire (SW England).
This specimen is a cast of the inside of the original sea snail shell which formed the mould and was later dissolved away. The cast shows that, like modern snails, the inside of the shell was very smooth. The snail lived on a warm tropical seabed and moved around on its muscular foot-like organ. It probably fed by grazing on sponges and algae.
The specimen was found in Wiltshire.
It is from the Cretaceous period (144 - 65 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Gastropoda Classification: Animalia Invertebrata 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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