Unique Bryozoan with intact, diamond shaped zooeciums/operculums

[Innocentx]

I found this on hilltop in Wreford Formation. I've never seen this before and at first I thought it was Acanthocladia. It's not. Has anyone seen this type before? Lower Permian, Wreford formation, Kansas.

 

904 bryozoan.bmp

[Innocentx]

Here are some magnifications:

 

[Jazfossilator]

I can’t help but that’s a neat find, nice looking bryozoan!

[Bullsnake]

Maybe rhombopora.

[Innocentx]

Thanks @Jazfossilator.

[Wrangellian]

Nice one!  What age is that formation - Pennsylvanian?

[Innocentx]

@Wrangellian. Sorry I forgot to put this info in the post, instead of only in tags.  Lower Permian, Wreford formation, Kansas.

[Wrangellian]

Ah, I'm not used to looking at the tags yet!

Very good, I was just saying in another topic yesterday that we don't see enough Permian stuff around here. That one is a keeper for sure. We have a bit of Lower Permian here on Van Island (on top of some Pennsylvanian) but not as much and it's hard to get to. I have a chunk with what looks like the imprint of something similar to yours, but not as showy.

[Innocentx]

1 hour ago, Bullsnake said:

Maybe rhombopora.

It's possibly a type I'm not familiar with. The only bryozoan close to matching it (that I could find), is from The Netherlands' Cretaceous. It is also in flint.

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Lovely bryozoan. 

Rhombopora does occur in the Permian of Kansas. 

Not sure if this is it, but it's a possibility. 

[doushantuo]

I'm notoriously bad at IDs,wild stabs :Protoretepora.Do not know the paleobiogeography/stratigraphy of the genus.

Lyropora?A rhabdomesonid of some kind?

Tarq might know,or Joe

I take it you have Simonsen/Cuffey(1980) somewhere at hand?

[KimTexan]

I can’t help with ID, but it is a lovely piece. 

[Innocentx]

Thank you, @KimTexan

[doushantuo]

yay,forgetting my forum etiquette.Nice find,Inny!

[Innocentx]

@doushantuo. You have the most fabulous resources. I see many similarities with the zooecium of the Tibetan bryozoans. However, this has branching growth pattern and not the fan type. 

41 minutes ago, doushantuo said:

I take it you have Simonsen/Cuffey(1980) somewhere at hand?

Another book I'll be checking out, thanks for the tip.

 

Because of your tip, I think I'll attempt to ID this after my own further research.

[doushantuo]

Tibetan?Not Spitsbergen?

[doushantuo]

can highly recommend:

 

 

 

 

 

In the last one ,fig 4 is really nice!

 

 

[Innocentx]

32 minutes ago, doushantuo said:

Tibetan?Not Spitsbergen?

Perhaps I have had an occidental/accidental brain f^rt. 

Be back tomorrow.

[Innocentx]

This is the page I was thinking of: https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1462-bryozoan-fauna-of-tibet

Figure 18, #5.

 

@doushantuo. I see what you mean about figure 4 from "Fistuliporacean bryozoans of the Wreford megacyclothem (Lower Permian) of Kansas", publication from KU. The hook-like zooecium resemble those on the edge/side in my photo.

[Innocentx]

@doushantuo Thanks also for making me aware of these local publications!