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The mystery fossil appears to be a bryozoan, but I would like to put it under the mike to look for zooids. The colony form is not right for most fenestellids of the Permian - but bryozoans are VERY diverse in colony form. It is closer to the genus Adeona, a very common genusin the Recent of Australia, but whose earliest known records are from the Eocene of Europe. Petralia has a similar colony form, but is only recorded from the Recent. A Tertiary species of Macropora is also similar. None of these are "closely" related, so it appears that the colony form is the result of convergence. I guess that the form may be a new genus, but I would have to see it before putting it into the cheilostomes or anything else. Look at Petralia undata at: http://www.civgeo.rmit.edu.au/bryozoa/cheilostomatida/petraliidae/ This message was first sent on 4th September, but as I haven't received it from the mailserver, I suspect it got lost at our end! Phil Bock Dept of Civil & Geological Engineering Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Email: bock@rmit.edu.au Phone (Int.) +61 3 9660 2411 Home Page: http://www.civgeo.rmit.edu.au/staff/bock.html "The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel" (Horace Walpole, 1717-1797)
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