Teredino shipworm!
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Description
Weight:
0.48kg
From the Eocene, Sparnacian stage.
Collected from Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent.
Interesting piece of fossilised wood from the London Clay,Polished to a high shine,with epifauna in the form of Bivalve boring tubes,these are confusingly called ship worm,but its actually caused by the rasping radula tongue of a bivalve.
The entire specimen measures 91mm x 80mm.
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