| P number: | P521085 |
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| Caption: | A fossil specimen of Carbonicola cf. communis Davies and Trueman. A fossil bivalve. (Mollusca, Bivalvia.) Castlehill Mine, Overtown Colliery, Wishaw., Lanarkshire, Scotland. |
| Description: | Carbonicola cf. communis is a non-marine bivalve of the Westphalian (Upper Carboniferous). It lived in the shallow waters of flooded coal forests. A shallow burrower it often shared the same horizon as the benthic ostracod, Geisina. British Geological Survey Biostratigraphy Collection number GSE 6894. Bivalves belong to the Phylum Mollusca and Class Bivalvia. They have two hard, usually bowl-shaped shells called valves that enclose the soft tissue. Most bivalves lived by filtering water-borne food particles. They have inhabited the earth for 500 million years and are very common today. This specimen is from the Carboniferous roof of the Balmoral Index Coal, upper communis zone. Figd. Trueman & Weir. Mon. Pal. Soc. Vol. CI, 1947, pt. III, pl. VIII, fig. 10. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 180.60 KB; 1000 x 665 pixels; 85 x 56 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 176 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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