piranha Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Occasionally a random bryozoan image is discussed/posted. It would be great to see these lesser appreciated inverts have their 15 minutes of fame here at TFF. I have a small assortment to start the ball rolling. I'm really curious to see the variety of forms from all across North America and especially from our great members across the pond. Taeniopora exigua - Devonian Hamilton Group - New York Bryozoan sp(?) Ordovician Decorah Shale - Minnesota Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 Constellaria florida - Ordovician Kope Formation - Kentucky Escharopora falciformis - Ordovician Kope Formation - Kentucky Escharopora maculata - Ordovician Grant Lake Formation - Kentucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 i think some of these are bryozoa ==> these i have a bunch of that sort of thing but i don't handle it without wearing gloves, because i don't trust these creatures. i've heard they're related to eczema. oh, the ones in the picture are from north texas and they're 300 million years old, but i don't know their birthday. ya'll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Sharks Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Hi Piranha: This has been brought up before http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php/topic/12242-show-us-your-bryozoans/ Great Constellaria, up here, that is one of the rarest species to find There's no limit to what you can accomplish when you're supposed to be doing something else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 (edited) Hi Piranha: This has been brought up before http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php/topic/12242-show-us-your-bryozoans/ Great Constellaria, up here, that is one of the rarest species to find Thanks for that link Northern - the plate from Tasmania is excellent. OK - let's give the bryozoans a second 15 minutes - Keep 'em coming guys! Edited December 10, 2010 by piranha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Sharks Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 (edited) Here are a few more that I've added since the original post. Also, my "mystery" bryozoa has since been identified as a branching Favositine coral. Edited December 11, 2010 by Northern Sharks 1 There's no limit to what you can accomplish when you're supposed to be doing something else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Occasionally a random bryozoan image is discussed/posted. It would be great to see these lesser appreciated inverts have their 15 minutes of fame here at TFF. I have a small assortment to start the ball rolling. I'm really curious to see the variety of forms from all across North America and especially from our great members across the pond. Taeniopora exigua - Devonian Hamilton Group - New York Bryozoan sp(?) Ordovician Decorah Shale - Minnesota This post made me realize I don't have any Bryos in my collection (I don't think!) Somehow they've eluded me. We dont find them in this area anyway but you'd think I would have bought one by now.. That Taeniopora sure caught my eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoPastels Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 here is mine! I still cant ID my bryo... :/ I also have a few pieces of Fenestella and some other devonian ones but they are kinda small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 here is mine! I still cant ID my bryo... :/ I also have a few pieces of Fenestella and some other devonian ones but they are kinda small. Very Nice Larsa! Thanks for posting. What are the dimensions and where did you find it? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 What a Taeniopora exigua specimen! I only find small bits and pieces. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoPastels Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Its about the size of both my hands placed next to eachother. Im actually "rock-sitting" it until I can ID it. It was a donation, I wish I knew where it came from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 What a Taeniopora exigua specimen! I only find small bits and pieces. Thanks Shamalama! Can you believe I found it at ebay for $15 shipped? "Rock with Fossils on it from NY" was the listing title. With one blurry photo shot from a old brownie camera. Even a blind bird catches a worm once in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 This post made me realize I don't have any Bryos in my collection (I don't think!) Somehow they've eluded me. We dont find them in this area anyway but you'd think I would have bought one by now.. That Taeniopora sure caught my eye. They had their hayday back in the Paleozoic. Here in the Cretaceous of Texas you might find a few little encrusting colonies on other shells but branching or frondose specimens are very rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 I think Fenestella is all around... I think this are, aswell... More to come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Here are some more recent unidentified massive bryozoans. 1) and 2)Mid-Upper Pliocene Pinecrest member of the Tamiami Formation, Sarasota County, Florida 3) Plio-Pleistocene Waccamaw Formation, Columbus County, North Carolina 4) Mid-Upper Pliocene Moore House Member of the Yorktown Formation, Chuckatuck, Virginia 5) Middle Pleistocene Bermont Formation, Palm Beach County, Florida also showing a Callianassa claw "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted December 18, 2010 Author Share Posted December 18, 2010 (edited) Here are some more recent unidentified massive bryozoans. 1) and 2)Mid-Upper Pliocene Pinecrest member of the Tamiami Formation, Sarasota County, Florida 3) Plio-Pleistocene Waccamaw Formation, Columbus County, North Carolina 4) Mid-Upper Pliocene Moore House Member of the Yorktown Formation, Chuckatuck, Virginia 5) Middle Pleistocene Bermont Formation, Palm Beach County, Florida also showing a Callianassa claw I especially like the globular form of the first specimen. Thanks Mike, these are fantastic! Edited December 18, 2010 by piranha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Unidentified Cenozoic encrusting bryozoa: 1) Bryozoa encrucsted Turritella aliticostata, Middle Pliocene, Moore House Member of the Yorktown Formation, Chuckatuck, Virginia 2) Bryozoa encrucsted barnacles, Middle Pliocene, Moore House Member of the Yorktown Formation, Chuckatuck, Virginia 3) Middle Pliocene, Moore House Member of the Yorktown Formation, Chuckatuck, Virginia 4) Plio-Pleistocene, Waccamaw Formation, Columbus County, North Carolina 5) Lower Pleistocene, James City Formation, Beaufort County, North Carolina "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordovician_Odyssey Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 heres a bryosoa, i have no idea what it is..if any one has any guess' go ahead! anyway.....it was found in the lindsay formation, ontario. Ordovician. -Shamus The Ordovician enthusiast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thair Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Penn. Central Texas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted December 20, 2010 Author Share Posted December 20, 2010 MikeR, thair, trilobite guy, et al., Thank You! The diversity is amazing and the fossils are spectacular! Keep 'em coming guys and gals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Earlier I stated that I had no bryozoans - since then I discovered one on the bottom of a blastoid (Pentremites) I have from Milstadt IL. If any one knows the name or general taxon I'd appreciate knowing it, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted December 24, 2010 Author Share Posted December 24, 2010 (edited) Earlier I stated that I had no bryozoans - since then I discovered one on the bottom of a blastoid (Pentremites) I have from Milstadt IL. If any one knows the name or general taxon I'd appreciate knowing it, thanks! Hi Eric, Thanks for another puzzler here. There is ample data to at least give us the formation and stratigraphy for this bryozoan. Isolating the genus and species will be more difficult because your fossil is a bit weathered away. Pentremites are commonly associated with various described bryozoan colonies listed from the Chesterian Series that includes the Milstadt Illinois locality. The following genera have been described in association with Pentremites of the Chester Series fossils; Archimedes, Cystodictya, Glyptopora and Lyropora. There is a very good paper on the subject; The Mississippian Fauna of Kentucky describing 16 different Chester Series faunal assemblages from Kentucky and those associated from Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. Additionally, Index Fossils of North America lists Archimedes sublaxus from the Chester Series of Milstadt. The fan shaped portion preserved in that example looks closest out of the few I've looked at so far. At least this paper and other online references corroborate the formation and age of your fossils. Always fun Eric! What'ya got next? Edited December 24, 2010 by piranha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyB Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Here are a couple photos of Bryozoa from Brownwood spillway, Brownwood Lake, Texas. TroyB Tankman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Hi Eric, Thanks for another puzzler here. There is ample data to at least give us the formation and stratigraphy for this bryozoan. Isolating the genus and species will be more difficult because your fossil is a bit weathered away. Pentremites are commonly associated with various described bryozoan colonies listed from the Chesterian Series that includes the Milstadt Illinois locality. The following genera have been described in association with Pentremites of the Chester Series fossils; Archimedes, Cystodictya, Glyptopora and Lyropora. There is a very good paper on the subject; The Mississippian Fauna of Kentucky describing 16 different Chester Series faunal assemblages from Kentucky and those associated from Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. Additionally, Index Fossils of North America lists Archimedes sublaxus from the Chester Series of Milstadt. The fan shaped portion preserved in that example looks closest out of the few I've looked at so far. At least this paper and other online references corroborate the formation and age of your fossils. Always fun Eric! What'ya got next? Thanks Scott... I should have mentioned that the blastoids were labeled as: "P. symmetricus, L. Chesterian, Ridenhower Fm, Milstadt IL." That might narrow it down for us. I'm confused when I see the label above vs. the pics in the article, wherein the P. brevis look more like mine (the symmetricus are more elongated)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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