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Brachiopods

I want to get to know them!

02.06.2024 - 31.01.2025 ,
Naturhistorisches Museum (Natural History Museum)

Accessibility
partly accessible
Opening Times
Open today 13:00-17:00
Address
Marientorgraben 8
90402 Nürnberg

A popular holiday pastime is to search the beach for shells. In addition to shells, we can also find many other things from the sea, such as snails, sea urchins, starfish, driftwood and maybe even a piece of amber. However, brachiopods will almost never be among the artefacts found. Although they are found in all the world's oceans, they have been displaced by mussels to greater depths, so that their shells are rarely washed up on the beach. However, they have been present in large numbers in the sea in all geological eras. In the Palaeozoic, they were so numerous that they made up a large part of the marine fauna. Fossil collectors get their hands on them from time to time. However, they pay little attention to them because they usually appear smaller and more inconspicuous than fossil ammonites, snails and sea urchins, for example. In fact, brachiopods are just as interesting and diverse as other marine invertebrates. It therefore makes sense to take a closer look at them.

Last edited on 01.02.2025

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