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Moss Animal Collection

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Ozarkodina remscheiddensis eosteinhornensis

Ozarkodina remscheiddensis eosteinhornensis
An element of the conodont Ozarkodina remscheiddensis eosteinhornensis. Conodonts are thought to have been worm-like marine vertebrates

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Selenaria maculata, bryozoa

Selenaria maculata, bryozoa
An Australian, free living, bryozoan colony capable of walking along the sea floor. With about 2000 members the colony is some 12mm across

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Fungia, coral

Fungia, coral
Fungia is a free-living scleractinian coral. In this large example, almost 10 cm in diameter, from the Pleistocene of Yemen

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Archimedes swallovanus, bryozoan

Archimedes swallovanus, bryozoan
Fossil bryozoan dating from the Carboniferous rocks, Mississippian, Golconda Fm. Marigold, Illinois, U.S.A

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Plaster models of conodonts

Plaster models of conodonts
From top left Ancyrodella, Gnathodus, Polygnathus, Cavusgnathus, Polygnathoides and Oistodus. These models were produced by Christain Hurfurth under the direction of Dr Klaus Muller

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Hexagonella, bryozoan

Hexagonella, bryozoan
A 5 cm long branch of Hexagonella from the Permian of Australia. This cystoporate bryozoan has polygonal subcolonies bounded by ridges

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Chasmatopora furcata eichwald, bryozoan

Chasmatopora furcata eichwald, bryozoan
This bryozoa specimen is 470-458 million years old, dating from the Middle Ordovician period, Kuckersits, Estonia

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Fenestrellina plebeia, net bryozoan

Fenestrellina plebeia, net bryozoan
A net bryozoan (colonial organisms) from the Carboniferous of North of Wales. In this specimen, the colony measures 6 cms across

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Lophopus cristallinus, freshwater bryozoan

Lophopus cristallinus, freshwater bryozoan
A freshwater bryozoan collected from the west coast of Norfolk it is an example of one of 11 freshwater bryozoans found in the U.K

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: A bryozoan colony

A bryozoan colony
Scanning electron microscope image displayed on the glass screens in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Hallopora, bryozoan

Hallopora, bryozoan
Branch, 15 mm high, of the trepostome bryozoan Hallopora, a genus particularly common in the Silurian which had bushy colonies when alive

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Actinopora disticha, bryozoan

Actinopora disticha, bryozoan
Scanning electron micrograph of a fossil cyclostome bryozoan from the Cretaceous Chalk, Santonian, Kent

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Meliceritites semiclausa, bryozoan

Meliceritites semiclausa, bryozoan
Branching colony of a fossil cyclostome bryozoan. Specimen originates from the Lower Cretaceous Faringdon Sponge Gravel, Faringdon, Oxfordshire

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Wilbertopora woodwardi (Brydone), bryozoan

Wilbertopora woodwardi (Brydone), bryozoan
Scanning electron micrograph of a fossil cheilostome bryozoan. Specimen originates from the Upper Cretaceous Chalk, West Mean Station, Hampshire, U.K

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Aspidelectra melolontha, bryozoan

Aspidelectra melolontha, bryozoan
Scanning electron micrograph. Zooids of a bleached colony of a modern cheilostome bryozoan. A recent specimen from Sheppey, Kent

Background imageMoss Animal Collection: Ptilodictya lanceolata (Goldfuss), bryozoan

Ptilodictya lanceolata (Goldfuss), bryozoan
Curved-shaped frond of a fossil cryptostome bryozoan on a block with a brachiopod. Specimen originates from the Silurian Wenlock Limestone, Dudley, West Midlands


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