Bryozoans from the Pliocene Bowden shell bed of Jamaica

Nineteen species of bryozoans are illustrated from the Bowden shell bed, including all of the commoner species. Recorded for the first time from the Bowden shell bed are ? Plagioecia dispar Canu & Bassler, 1928, Mecynoecia proboscideoides (Smitt, 1872), Schizoporella errata (Waters, 1879), Petraliella cf. bisinuata (Smitt, 1873) and Schedocleidochasma porcellanum (Busk, 1860). Most of the Bowden bryozoans are widespread in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in the Neogene and at the present day. They represent a tropical shelf fauna, apparently transported without appreciable abrasion into a deeper water setting in sediment gravity flows.