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Description: | Specimen of a fossil sponge, Stauronema carteri, collected from the Lower Chalk Formation of Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian age.
This dish-shaped sponge fossil has a wrinkled outer surface and was anchored to the seabed by a stem, part of which is shown in this specimen. The sponge was probably part of colony that lived in a quiet low energy (calm) environment in a warm, shallow sea. The sponge pumped water through its wall 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 | 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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