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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bryozoan (sea mat or moss animal), Fenestella retiformis, collected from the Ford Formation (reef facies) of Late Permian, Zechstein (Durham Province), EZ1 age from Humbledon Hill, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (NE England). Collected by James Walter Kirkby.
Fenestella retiformis was a bryozoan (sea mat or moss animal) that was common in the Zechstein Sea (a warm, very salty sea) in the Sunderland area 250 million years ago. These fossils are particularly beautiful and delicate and look like white nets on the surface of the rock. They are very common in the rocks of Tunstall Hills in Sunderland which once formed part of a huge tropical barrier reef.
The specimen was found in Tyne and Wear.
It is from the Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Kirkby Invertebrata Bryozoa James Walter | Temporal: | Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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