Bryozoans

1. Fenestellid

Tournaisian Waulsortian mound facies with leiolitic structureless micrite and fenestellid bryozoan.

Mississippian, Ireland

2. Fenestellid

Tournaisian Waulsortian mound facies with fenestellid bryozoan surrounded by radiaxial fibrous cement (biocementstone).

Mississippian, Ireland

3. Fenestellid

Tournaisian Waulsortian mound facies with fenestellid bryozoan surrounded by radiaxial fibrous cement (biocementstone) and structureless leiolitic micrite.

Mississippian, Ireland

4. Fenestellid

Visean mound facies with fenestellid bryozoans surrounded by structureless leiolitic micrite and calcite sparite; a crinoid in the lower right corner.

Mississippian, New Mexico, USA

5. Fenestellid

Visean mound flank facies consisting of grainstone with fenestellid bryozoans and crinoids cemented by syntaxial calcite.

Mississippian, New Mexico, USA

6. Fistuliporid

Visean mound flank facies with grainstone of fenestellid and fistuliporid bryozoans and crinoids.

Mississippian, New Mexico, USA

7. Fistuliporid

Fistuliporid bryozoan surrounded by radiaxial fibrous cement in a Bashkirian upper slope boundstone.

Pennsylvanian, Asturias; Della Porta et al. (2003, 2004)

8. Fistuliporid

A Moscovian mound facies with bryozoans and clotted peloidal micrite associated with tubular encrusting (centre) and Tuberitina (left and right of centre) foraminifera.

Pennsylvanian, Asturias, N Spain, cf. Bahamonde et al. (2015, 2017)

9. Bryozoan

Skeletal packstone with bryozoan fragment (centre) and Gypsina foraminifer (upper left corner) of Eocene age.

Thin section kindly provided by T. Geel, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

10. Bryozoan

Skeletal packstone with foraminifera (Rotalia and Nummulites on the left side), coralline red algae fragments and a bryozoan impregnated with glauconite (top centre).

Thin section kindly provided by T. Geel, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

11. Bryozoan

Skeletal packstone with bryozoan fragments.

Oligocene, Central Apennine, Italy

12. Bryozoan

Grainstone with bryozoans surrounded by isopachous rims of fibrous cement; sparse planktonic foraminifera in an open marine inner ramp setting.

Oligocene, Central Apennine, Italy

13. Bryozoan

Skeletal grainstone with bryozoans, lithoclasts (bottom right), Miogypsinoides (centre left) and Amphistegina foraminifera (centre right).

Oligocene, Central Apennine, Italy

14. Bryozoan

Cretaceous bryozoans (field of view approximately 3 mm)

Lower Cretaceous, Faringdon, UK

15. Bryozoan

Cross-section of bryozoan in a packstone with echinoderm fragments from Upper Carboniferous ramp facies.

Pennsylvanian, Gobler Formation, Fresnal Canyon, New Mexico