Amplexopora

Amplexopora
Temporal range: from Ordovician to Permian, 466.0–268.0 Ma
Fossils of Amplexopora petasifomis. Ordovician, Covington (Kentucky)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Bryozoa
Order: Trepostomata
Genus: Amplexopora

Amplexopora is a genus of Bryozoan known in the rock record from the Ordovician to the Permian periods. Species belonging to this genus were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.

Selected species

Distribution

Fossils of this genus have been found in Permian of Afghanistan, in Silurian of Norway, Russia and United Kingdom and in Ordovician of Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, United States.

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