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Fenestrate bryozoan in the Mississippian of Kentucky USA.

The lace-like fossil seen here is a fenestrate bryozoan. Bryozoans are sessile, benthic, colonial, filter-feeding lophophorates. They first appear as fossils in the Late Cambrian and are still alive today in the Holocene. Most bryozoans constructed a calcareous skeleton, which is readily preserved in the fossil record. Fossil bryozoan skeletons are often highly fragmented. Fenestrates have sheet-like skeletons with numerous windows ("fenestrae"). The fenestrates range from Ordovician to the Triassic.

Classification: Animalia, Lophophorata, Bryozoa, Stenolaemata, Fenestrata

Stratigraphy: Glen Dean Formation, Chesterian Series, Upper Mississippian

Locality: Wax South Outcrop - Rt. 88 roadcut south of the town of Wax & immediately south of Nolin Reservoir/Lake, west-northwest of the town of Cub Run, far-western Hart County, west-central Kentucky, USA (37° 20' 10.88” North latitude, 86° 07’ 35.03” West longitude)
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Author James St. John

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by James St. John at https://flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/40546723340 (archive). It was reviewed on 7 December 2019 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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