Pentapora pertusa

Licence: 
Creative Commons Licence
Imaging technique: 
Scanning Electron Micrograph
Description: 

Zooids with corroded frontal shields: note ovicells and a giant avicularium.

Pliocene

Coralline Crag, Broom Pit

P.D. Taylor and M.A. Wilson Colln. 2006

Taxonomic name: 
Bryozoa (Bryozoa), Gymnolaemata (Bryozoa), Cheilostomata (Bryozoa), Ascophora (Bryozoa), Bitectiporidae (Bryozoa), Pentapora (Bryozoa), Pentapora pertusa (Bryozoa)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith