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Description: | inscription, pencil, 65
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The thick sea snail shell is covered with spiral ridges and vertical ribs. Athleta lived in warm subtropical shallow coastal waters in a community dominated by gastropods and bivalves. It was a predator and a scavenger that fed on live molluscs, dead animals and plants on the sea floor. The snail shell was one of the first British fossils to be given a scientific name using the new Linnean classification system by Daniel Solander in 1766.
Stratigraphy: Tertiary & Eocene / 33.7 - 54.8 my | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.palaeobiology.75305 | Go to resource |
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