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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve, Megalodon sp., collected from unspecified rocks of Devonian age from Hand, near Paffrath, Germany.
Megalodon was a bivalve (two shells or valves) that had a tall, smooth, heart shaped outline, when the two shells are seen in profile. It would have lived in clusters in warm, tropical seas, and fed on organic matter that it filterd out of the water. This bivalve would have lived partially buried in the sediment of the sea floor. The name megalodon is also used for some fossil sharks, for example, Carcharodon megalodon, an extinct relative of the great white shark.
The specimen was found in Germany.
It is from the Devonian period (418 - 362 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Bivalvia Mollusca | Temporal: | Devonian period (418 - 362 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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