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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod, Lingula mytiloides, collected from the Scremerston Coal Group, Redesdale Shale of Early Carboniferous, Dinantian, Visean, Asbian age from Comb Quarry, Redesdale, Northumberland (NE England). Collected by John Dunn.
Lingula is an unusual and very successful brachiopod (lamp shell). It lives in a burrow where it moves up and down on a long fleshy stalk called a pedicle. Its shells are held together only by soft tissues. Lingula was one of the first brachiopods to appear in the fossil record in the Cambrian period and can be found all over the world today. It lives in inshore brackish (slightly salty) water and tidal areas where it filters tiny food particles out of the water.
The specimen was found in Northumberland.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Dunn Brachiopoda Invertebrata John | 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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