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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bivalve, Pholas crespata, collected from unspecified rocks of Quaternary, Pleistocene age from Selsey (?), Sussex (SE England). Collected by Edward Charlesworth (?).
This bivalve shellfish is adapted to boring into rocks and hard sea floors. Its foot-like organ is modified into a sucker that grips the bottom of the bore-hole and the rough spiny part of the shell wears away the rock and forms a cavity. The bore-hole protects the piddock from predators such as fish, and from being damaged in the high-energy waves of the shoreline environment where it lives. Living relatives occur around the coasts of the British Isles.
The specimen was found in Sussex.
It is from the Quaternary period (1.8 - 0 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Charlesworth Classification: Animalia Edward (?) Invertebrata Bivalvia Mollusca | Temporal: | Quaternary period (1.8 - 0 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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