Bryozoan
Fossil
Also called Moss animal and Ectoproct
About it
Tiny colonial animals whose skeletons form twigs, crusts, and lacy fans dotted with pinprick pores. Ordovician rocks around Cincinnati are packed with them; living bryozoans still encrust shells and seaweed.
- Type
- Fossil (other)
- Group
- Bryozoan
- Colours
- grey, tan, brown, cream
- Transparency
- opaque
- Periods
- Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.