MNCN BRYOZOA
Recent and Quaternary fossil bryozoans.
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This site displays the diversity of Quaternary and Recent bryozoans kept in the MNCN (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, National Museum of Natural Sciences of Madrid). It has been created thanks to Synthesys Virtual Access (VA) Call 2, 2021, for the international project Bryozoa Identification Tool (BIT) for Quaternary and Recent Mediterranean and North Atlantic Bryozoans. There are SEM images of the most represenative individuals and the dataset for Unix/Linus and Windows.
Bryozoans are colonial animals that are widely distributed in marine benthic environments and play an important role in temperate and cold-water oceanic shelves as habitat providers. They are one of the most diverse components of intertidal and shelf environment communities. Morphologically and mineralogically diverse, bryozoans are important carbonate producers with an extensive fossil record, which makes them good indicators in environmental and paleoenvironmental research. They are helpful to address evolutionary questions, especially those dealing with the effects of climatic change on assemblages of benthic animals.
Image collection:
Digital CSIC
Bryozoa Identification Tool (BIT) for Quaternary and Recent Mediterranean and North Atlantic Bryozoans
Thanks to the Digital CSIC staff, and especially to Juan Román Molina for his invaluable help in storing the image dataset.
