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I heard from a friend that someone recently posted a bryozoan I found here but I missed seeing it and I can't find it so they may have been mistaken. However, that reminded me that I had only posted it on Facebook so I thought you might like seeing it here too. I'm pretty sure it is a Tabulipora carbonaria which must have been named by a lumper since it appears in such a wide variety of forms. It can be branching, encrusting or massive. The latter is how you describe one than is self-encrusting, forming a sub-hemispherical mound, much like a stromatolite. This is one of the branching forms and came from the Finis Shale of Jack County Texas, a Late Pennsylvanian member of the Graham Formation. The ones I usually find are much smaller, with a diameter less than 3 mm. When I walked up on this I thought it was a burrow infill until I noticed the zooecia. Then I assumed it was the encrusting type until I look at a cross-section with a loupe. Maybe some of you find them this big normally but this is a first for me. In situ image ready to assemble close-up of side closer end view, millimeter scale close-up of end
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