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Description: | This round scallop has a lightweight shell with radiating ribs that give the shell strength, and prominent 'wings' next to the hinge line (the area where the two shells (valves) meet). Pecten lived freely on the surface of the sea bed where it fed on tiny food particles that it filtered out of the water. It could also swim by 'clapping' its shells together but usually only did so to escape from predators such as fish. After the scallop died its two shells came apart and were preserved separately.
Stratigraphy: Tertiary & Miocene / 5.3 - 23.8 my | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.palaeobiology.74307 | Go to resource |
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