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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bryozoan (sea mat or moss animal), Synocladia virgulacea, collected from the Ford Formation (reef facies) of Late Permian, Zechstein (Durham Province), EZ1 age from Co Durham (NE England).
Synocladia virgulacea was a bryozoan (moss animal) that lived in the warm, salty Zechstein Sea 250 million years ago. This bryozoan built a funnel shaped framework, in which many tiny animals that looked a bit like small sea anemones lived. Bryozoans were important inhabitants of the reef that formed a ridge that can still be traced in the Sunderland area, for example, at Tunstall Hill.
The specimen was found in Co Durham.
It is from the Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Bryozoa | 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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