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Description: | Specimen of a fossil bryozoan (sea mat or moss animal), Thamniscus dubius, collected from the Ford Formation (reef facies) of Late Permian, Zechstein (Durham Province), EZ1 age from Humbledon Hill, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (NE England).
Thamniscus dubius was a bryozoan (moss animal or sea mat) that lived on a reef in the warm Zechstein Sea 250 million years ago. This sea streched from what is now north east England to Germany and Poland. Bryozoans were reef-building animals (reefs like this one often form ridges), similar to corals. This particular bryozoan formed branching, plant-like structures, in which the tiny zooids (bryozoan animals) that looked a bit like small sea anemones, lived.
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 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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