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Description: | Specimen of a fossil gastropod, Cerithioides telescopium, collected from the Comb Limestone, Pipers Cross Limestone (?), Scremerston Coal Group of Early Carboniferous, Dinantian, Visean, Asbian age from Comb (?), Northumberland (NE England). Collected by John Dunn.
The shell of this sea snail has been dissolved away to leave a cast of the smooth interior. It appears that the original shell was thin suggesting that the snail lived in a low-energy (calm water) environment where it was unlikely to suffer any physical damage. It was part of a shallow water community that lived on the floor of a warm tropical sea.
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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