| Amplexopora Temporal range: from Ordovician to Permian,
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| Polished section of the Upper Ordovician bryozoan Amplexopora with Trypanites borings. Collected in northern Kentucky. | |
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| Genus: | Amplexopora
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Amplexopora is a genus of bryozoans of the family Amplexoporidae, known in the rock record from the Ordovician to the Permian periods. Species belonging to this genus were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders. Their colonies showed a very great variety in shapes.[1]
- ^ Ross, June Philips (1969). "Champlainian (Ordovician) Ectoprocta (Bryozoa), New York State, Part II". Journal of Paleontology. 43 (2): 262.