Brachiopod Epacrosina fulva Dartmoor Victoria Australia (EA1938) fossil shell
Fossil Brachiopod Shells
Epacrosina fulva Age : Pliocene 6 Million Years Ago
Specimen Size Approximate: 8.0 x 7.0 x 3.5 cm
Location : Dartmoor Dam, Dartmoor, Victoria, Australia
Brachiopods are a type of marine ‘shellfish’ having their soft body enclosed in a pair of shells. In this respect they superficially resemble the familiar bivalve molluscs that include clams and mussels, but they are not related to these at all. The two shells of brachiopods are different in size (unlike most bivalves), and the similarity in shape of some forms to Roman oil lamps has led to their being sometimes called ‘lamp-shells’. Brachiopods may be attached to the sea floor by a variety of means, including a fleshy stalk (called a pedicle), spines, or a kind of cement; or they may lie free on the sediment surface. The shell can be opened to allow the animal to pump seawater into it, using a large feathery structure called the lophophore which also filters small food particles from the seawater and extracts oxygen. In some types of brachiopods the two shells have an interlocking hinge, but in other types the shells lack a hinge and are simply held together by muscles
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- Condition: Used
- Condition: A genuine fossil professionally prepared and presented
- Era: 1990s
- Material: Fossil Shell
- Region: Dartmoor Victoria Australia
- Species: Epacrosina fulva
- Geological period: Pliocene
- Formation Collected From:: Wheelers Bluff Formation
- Locality collected from:: Dartmoor Dam, Dartmoor, Victoria, Australia
- Age In Million Of Years Old: 6 MYO
- Specimen Size:: Approximately 8.0 x 7.0 x 3.5 cm
- MPN: ea1938
- Brand: earthstones Australia
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