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Description: | Specimen of a fossil gastropod (snail), Loxonema lerfeveri, collected from unspecified rocks of Early Carboniferous age from Comb Quarry, Redesdale, Northumberland (NE England). Collected by John Dunn.
This cold water Brittle Star has been preserved in glacial clays that were deposited beneath a floating ice sheet. Living specimens occur in Artic waters. Brittle Stars live crowded together in great numbers in deeper seas and oceans. They use their flexible arms to swim and feed mainly on tiny food particles in sea water. Ophiouroids (brittle stars) have evolved little since they first appeared in the Ordovician period around 450 million years ago.
The specimen was found in Northumberland.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Gastropoda Classification: Animalia Dunn Invertebrata John Mollusca | Temporal: | Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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