Rudist Bivalve
Hippurites radiosus
Timeline: Late Cretaceous Period
Location of fossil: Charente, France
Holes bored in the upper shell by organisms that lived above the sediment show that this rudist lived with most of its shell buried.
fossil at National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian, National Mall, Washington, D.C.
I have not checked in here for a while as I thought it was getting boring, but the last several posts are good quality so I guess I’ll add you back to my everyday bloglist. You deserve it my friend 🙂