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Description: | inscription, pencil, 69
The globe shaped shell gives this sea snail its classified name. The soft body of the snail filled the last coil of the shell with the round opening. Globularia was a predator that fed on bivalves that lived buried in the surface of the sea floor. It was part of a rich and varied bivalve-gastropod fauna shallow that lived in a warm shallow subtropical sea.
Stratigraphy: Tertiary & Eocene / 33.7 - 54.8 my | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.palaeobiology.75322 | Go to resource |
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