Fossil group
Bryozoans
Other · Ordovician – Recent
Colonial, filter-feeding "moss animals" whose many microscopic individuals share a lacy or encrusting calcareous skeleton. Common from the Ordovician on, they help bind reefs and shell beds.
A broad fossil group rather than a single taxon — the units below record it among their fauna or flora.
Recorded in these units
9- Chalt Formation Permo-Carboniferous Paleozoic
- Darkot Group Late Palaeozoic (Upper Carboniferous–Lower Permian) Paleozoic
- Khyber Limestone Carboniferous–Permian Paleozoic
- Amb Formation Middle Permian (Wordian) Paleozoic
- Ini Sar Formation Middle Permian (Guadalupian; early Murgabian) Paleozoic
- Sardhai Formation Early Permian (Kungurian) Paleozoic
- Warchha Sandstone Early Permian (Artinskian) Paleozoic
- Drazinda Formation Middle to Late Eocene Cenozoic
- Dungan Formation Late Paleocene to Early Eocene Cenozoic
Found alongside
18Other fossils recorded in the same units.
AmmonoidsBivalvesBrachiopodsBrachiopods (Productus)CoralsCrinoidsEchinoidsFenestellaForaminiferaFusulinidsFusulinids (Schubertella, Yangchienia, Chusenella, Neoschwagerina spp.)GastropodsLarger benthic foraminifera (Alveolina, Nummulites, Discocyclina, Assilina, Ranikothalia, Miscellanea, Lockhartia)PelecypodsPlanktonic foraminifera (Morozovella)ProductidsRed algaeSphinctozoans