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Description: | This shellfish lived in a vertical position in a shallow burrow on a sandy sea bed and fed on tiny food particles that it filtered out of the sea water. This group of fossils contains many single shells, which suggests that they were washed together by sea currents after they died. This is because each shellfish had two shells joined together when they were alive which broke apart when they died. Glycymeris lived near the coast and were often washed out of their burrows during storms.
Stratigraphy: Tertiary (?) & Eocene (Early ?) / 48 - 54.8 my | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.palaeobiology.75012 | Go to resource |
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