feather bryozoan
Penniretepora sp.
Silurian427.4–419.2 Ma
- Catalogue
- FA-0367
- Phylum
- Bryozoa
- Class
- Stenolaemata
- Order
- Fenestrida
- Family
- Rhabdomesidae
- Locality
- Yass district, New South Wales
- Unit
- not recorded
- Age
- Late Silurian (Ludlow–Přídolí)
427.4–419.2 Ma - Reference
- Wikipedia
A delicate fenestrate bryozoan that grew as a slender central stem with side branches arranged in one plane, giving the colony the look of a small feather.
Colonies are fragile and almost always found as short broken lengths rather than complete fronds.
Note on the identification
Catalogued on the old site under Coral. It is a bryozoan, not a coral — a different phylum entirely.