| P number: | P521205 |
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| Caption: | A fossil specimen of Fabulina fabula Gmelin. A fossil gastropod. (Mollusca, Gastropoda.) Barry Buddon No.2 Borehole, 4.0 m, Forfarshire, Scotland. |
| Description: | Fabulina fabula is a small bivalve that occurs on all British and Irish coasts. British Geological Survey Biostratigraphy Collection number GSE 14029. An elongate, oval, bivalved shell up to 20 mm in length with one abruptly tapered end. The outside of the shell is sculptured with fine concentric lines and pronounced growth rings, and the right valve has wavy striations. Shell is white with yellow and orange tinges. The animal burrows up to 10 cms deep in fine sands and silts in the lower shore and shallow sublittoral zone. By extending its inhalent siphon it maintains access to the sediment surface. This specimen is Flandrian in age. The Flandrian period started after the last glaciation 10,000 years ago and is characterized by a rapid warming of the environment. Figd. Armstrong, M., Paterson, I.B. and Browne, M.A.E. Geology of the Perth and Dundee district memoir for 1:50,000 geological sheets 48W, 48E, 49. London : HMSO, 1985. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 118.19 KB; 1000 x 775 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 205 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Fossils |
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