| P number: | P521221 |
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| Caption: | A fossil specimen of Buccinum undatum. A fossil gastropod. (Mollusca, Gastropoda.) Lands of Rylees Farm, Ralston, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. |
| Description: | Buccinum undulatum is a marine gastropod better known as the common whelk, this mollusc is found off all British coasts. This specimen is from the Devensian (late Quaternary). British Geological Survey Biostratigraphy Collection number GSE 15098. It has a thick ovoid shell with a large last whorl and a moderately high spire. It has an oval aperture and its inner lip has a callus. Occasionally intertidal but mainly subtidal down to 1200 m. depth and found on muddy sand, gravel and rock. Whelks can grow up to 100 mm high and 60 mm wide. Buccinum moves through the soft sediment of the sea floor with its inhalent siphon above the mud and in clear water to allow a flow of clean water through its mantle cavity. It is a carnivorous gastropod, it uses its radula to rasp the soft flesh of its prey. It lived from the Pliocene to the present day, Figd. Hall, I.H.S., Browne, M.A.E. and Forsyth, I.H. Geology of the Glasgow district. Memoir for 1:50000 geological sheet 30E (Scotland). London : The Stationery Office for the British Geological Survey, 1998. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 132.89 KB; 775 x 1000 pixels; 66 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 205 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Fossils |
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