Lamp-shell
- Description
- Brachiopods are commonly known as lamp shells because they look like pottery oil lamps. This specimen was donated by Mr. F.G. Collins. They are preserved in a quarzitic pebble that was found in river deposits at Budleigh Salterton. Lamp shells in the genus Lingula are still found today and are described as ‘living fossils’ because they look just like their fossilised equivalents.
- Accession Loan No.
- 385/1914/30
- Collection Class
- Fossils
- Common Name
- lamp-shell
- Simple Name
- fossil: brachiopod, lamp shell
- Full Name
- LINGULIDAE: Lingula sp.: brachiopod
- Geology Period
- Ordovician 488 – 443 mya
- Family Group
- Collection Town
- Budleigh Salterton
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Phylum
- BRACHIOPODA
- Family
- LINGULIDAE
- Genus
- Lingula
- Species
- sp.
