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Awesome Bryozoan Encrusting


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mikeymig started a thread a few weeks back that got me looking through my collection of bryozoan encrustings (does someone really have such a collection? I have a cabinet drawer devoted to them.) I posted several specimens.

Looking further I came across an Ordivician speciman I'd had for several years and had never gotten around to cleaning, so I did. The further along I got the more fired up I got. Upon finishing I knew I had something special.

There appears to be 2 different bryozoans on the horn coral.

The process that took place for this to occur must have been amazing.

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This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while!

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nature at its most artistic again, that's an awesome piece!

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Would love to hear people's thoughts on how this occurred. There's a lot of extra bryo on the coral, I imagine it flapping in the current like a loose piece of clothing would in the wind.

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Would love to hear people's thoughts on how this occurred. There's a lot of extra bryo on the coral, I imagine it flapping in the current like a loose piece of clothing would in the wind.

Might there have been some softer substrate that has been lost since the encrustation?

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“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

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Might there have been some softer substrate that has been lost since the encrustation?

I cleaned out the sand/silt material between the bryo and the coral (not overly clay-ish). Down to the harder fossil. It was the same material that typically fills in the holes, cracks, and ridges in horn corals and brachiopods I find in this area. Which I've always figured occurred as sediment settled in after death of the organism.

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I'm postulating something organic that decayed away before the sand/silt filled the space.

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Impressive!

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Super cool Bryozoan blanket!

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