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There are a huge number of crinoid species found in the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation and a relatively small number of other echinoderms. 

They are common at Dudley, fairly uncommon elsewhere and a lot of the species are only found at Dudley. 

I have loads of columnals from the Wren's Nest, a few columnals from elsewhere and did have a really nice Dimerocrinites decdactylus from the Wenlock Shale but I can't find it at the moment. I'm pretty sure I didn't sell it when times were hard and a Devonian crinoid calyx was in its box. So I checked the Devonian crinoid's box and found a Lower Carboniferous crinoid. I found another carboniferous calyx in this ones box but there the trail ends. I probably got everything mixed up during the move to Morocco, so it may be around somewhere.  Disbelief.gif.3d2950d147539c79e3025d469b089fd6.gif

 

Anyway, I posted a lovely Thecia expatiata coral colony back on page 4. It's from Hobbs Quarry, Longhope, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. 

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Underneath, there is a nice Fistulipora bryozoan and several crinoid holdfasts. 

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The colony was attached to the sea bed only by the top area and the rest grew out sideways leaving a gap underneath that offered epizoans and probably mobile animals some shelter and protection.

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So I guess the crinoid stems grew sideways and then curled upwards or just had a calyx poking out of the crevice?

Close -ups. This is the biggest one, diameter 4.5 mm not including the 'rootlets' 

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This one is 4 mm wide :

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3 mm :

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2 mm

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This one's a columnal from the same location, 4 mm in diameter 

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There are a few others in matrix pieces from this location that you may be able to spot in previous posts. 

 

 

 

 

 

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On 9/12/2021 at 11:58 AM, Tidgy's Dad said:

I know Bobby is familiar with The Dudley Bug, sometimes called the Dudley Locust, actually the trilobite Calymene blumenbachii. A very famous species that is the most common bug found in the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation particularly at the Wren's Nest. It is on the Dudley county borough coat-of-arms.

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There seems to be a dinosaur on that coat of arms too, or is that supposed to be a dragon? :headscratch:

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16 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

There seems to be a dinosaur on that coat of arms too, or is that supposed to be a dragon? :headscratch:

I post my nice trilobits. 

I am proud of my pin prepping. 

I add lots of extra information on the fossils. 

And you ask me a question on heraldry. Crying.gif.25776d6c4d8165b7ac7f0678078ecb8b.gif

 

Sigh. 

It's a salamander in flames which was the traditional symbol of the blacksmith, for which Dudley was renowned.  

 

Still, thanks for looking, Eric.:)

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Here are the Wren's Nest crinoid columnals.

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The biggest ones :

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Others :

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These all have symplectial articulation, are the most common type, but probably represent more than one species 

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Synostosial articulation

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Heteromorphic bits :

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Very interesting articulation :

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Odds and ends :

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Has this stem been infested by parasites? Quite common at Dudley, apparently :

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Unusual :

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My favourite :

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And finally from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of the Wren's Nest, some weirdies. 

Don't know what these bits are, so please leave comments if you have any ideas. 

These ones looks echindermy or arthropody? 

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5. Not a clue.

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6. Worm? 

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7. Worm? 8 mm long, max 2 mm wide, just over a mm deep.

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Thank you very much to my wonderful friends Candace @thelivingdead531 and John @JohnBrewer for all the brilliant specimens from the Wren's Nest, you've really helped make my Wenlock collection a very special one. :beer:

 

So, I have a selection of British and Scandinavian Wenlock fossils with which I am delighted, but recently I have come into possession of some Micro matrix from the Waldron Shale of roughly equivalent age. 

So that's next! :wub:

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3 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Thank you very much to my wonderful friends Candace @thelivingdead531 and John @JohnBrewer for all the brilliant specimens from the Wren's Nest, you've really helped make my Wenlock collection a very special one. :beer:

It makes me very happy that they still bring you joy! It brings a warmth to my heart when I can make people smile, but since I can’t see if you’re smiling or not I’m going to assume you are to make myself feel wholesome. :D

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It makes me very happy that they still bring you joy! It brings a warmth to my heart when I can make people smile, but since I can’t see if you’re smiling or not I’m going to assume you are to make myself feel wholesome. :D

Am smiling. 1964006248_Bigsmile.gif.fc75e18b82a3c1c89157921fecfe8953.gif

I have had so much fun with this Wenlock material. Huge number of specimens and species. :b_love1: 

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3 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Am smiling. 1964006248_Bigsmile.gif.fc75e18b82a3c1c89157921fecfe8953.gif

I have had so much fun with this Wenlock material. Huge number of specimens and species. :b_love1: 

Such a lovely smile. :D If it makes you happy then I am happy! 

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14 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I post my nice trilobits. 

I am proud of my pin prepping. 

I add lots of extra information on the fossils. 

And you ask me a question on heraldry. Crying.gif.25776d6c4d8165b7ac7f0678078ecb8b.gif

 

Sigh. 

It's a salamander in flames which was the traditional symbol of the blacksmith, for which Dudley was renowned.  

 

Still, thanks for looking, Eric.:)

Sorry, I had to ask! That's a funny looking salamander.

I have been looking at your fossils, but don't have any questions as yet (you explain everything well enough in your text). :Smiling:

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8 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

Sorry, I had to ask! That's a funny looking salamander.

I have been looking at your fossils, but don't have any questions as yet (you explain everything well enough in your text). :Smiling:

Old folk tales all the way back to Pliny the Elder speak of the salamanders ability to put out fire or be resistant to fire. 

It is often depicted as a sort of lizard or dragon, even a bird, as many of the artist's had presumably never actually seen one. They don't occur in the UK but are often used as heraldic devices.  

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I'm beginning to think these objects are starfish ossicles. 

If anyone can confirm or deny, now or in the future, please feel free to air your opinions.

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Many more photos of three different specimens shown in the first post with photos above this one. 

Thanks! :beer:

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It was terrific that I was sent some Gotland Wenlock material so I could study the similarities in the corals found there and the differences in the bryozoa. And I looked up the bryozoa found in the US Rochester Shale and found they were very different again, though i don't have any from that formation. I thought I was nearly done with the Middle Silurian, but then to my surprise and delight I received two parcels containing specimens from the Waldron Shale Formation which seems to be equivalent to the middle part of the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation. So, a huge thank you to @connorp for sending me some tasty brachiopods and a few other lovely bits and bobs and to Debra @Paleome for absolutely loads of little baggies of wonderful small specimens and a load of micromatrix that I've spent many months sorting through. Very much appreciated! :fistbump:

Connor's material came from a spoil pile left for collectors to sort through at Atkins Quarry, Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana and Debra's stuff from "the Illinois Basin", also Indiana.

 

The first thing that I noticed of course, was that this shale is a dirty grey flaky stuff, not like the yellow/ orange limestones of Europe at all. It's not even like the hard greenish Wenlock Shales of the Lower Wenlock of the UK. This stuff is dirty, I think the seafloor must have been muddy and difficult for organisms to anchor on to. The shales also contain many stains and tiny crystals of pyrite. Lots of sulphur and iron in the water? Not ideal for life. Here's a bigger lump of  pyrite crystals that Connor included for me. 1.3 cm long. 

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The next thing I noticed about the Waldron Shale was the lack of the massive reefs of tabulate coral, compound rugose corals, stromatoporoids and chaetetids that are dominant in Europe and instead what seem to be bryozoan and crinoid forests seem to be the norm. 

There are a few species of doughnut / bowl shaped sponges present, but the only common one would appear to be Astylospongia praemorsa, which looks rather nice, but I don't have one at the moment. Twenhofelella is rare but worth a mention just because I love the name. 

There are far less species of rugose 'horn' coral than in the English Much Wenlock Limestone Formation and, of the species that can be found, by far the most common is the little, but rather pretty, Duncanella borealis, which I rather imagine existed with the tip poked into the mud. 

This first, short fat one is from @connorp

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In the photo below we can make out some of the septa around the edge. The species has a very deep calice, up to a third of the total height of the corallite so this specimen, I think has some of the thin upper walls broken off making the specimen short and fat where it would have been taller when complete. This may explain why I have read about two varieties of D. borealis occurring in the Waldron, a tall, thin one and a short, fat one. 

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Is the pointy tip broken off or was it attached to something hard? 

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Detail of side of specimen.

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The second, tall, thin specimen came to me from Debra @Paleome

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The top of the specimen shows no septa and I think I would have to did a lot of matrix out to find them deep inside. I did begin, but it was hard stuff so i gave up.

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The base of this one is much more pointy and of the type I can see just stuck into a soft sediment on the ocean floor.

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Details of side

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Lovely specimens, thanks peeps.:)

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The tabulate corals are represented by a few small hemispherical free living forms and a couple of encrusting species. Most of these are Favosites but there is a rare heliolitid (Plasmopora), I believe and one or two other genera. 

By far the most common appears to be Favosites forbesi, In older literature there is a Favosites forbesi listed for the British Wenlock, but most of the modern literature has it as Favosites gothlandicus var. forbesi. See the bottom of page three of this thread for examples, the second of which is a similar size to the specimen I have from the Waldron shown below. It also could be growing around something. I say that because Favosites forbesi from the Waldron shale is found growing around crinoid stems, and in particular around Eucalyptocrinus crassus, but that may be because E. crassus seems to be the most common crinoid in the Indiana Waldron Shale. I have no way of knowing what species of crinoid is within the specimen below, kindly sent to me by @connorp. 2.3 cm long at its maximum.  F. spinigerus is also found wrapped around crinoid stems in the same manner. I just love epibionts and surmise that this is an adaptation by the coral to find an alternative to a hard substrate in these muddy conditions. Marvelous and one of my favourite Wenlock fossils. Some of the brachiopods in the Waldron can also be found clinging by their pedicles to crinoid stems. 

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You can see both ends of the crinoid stem  from the picture below, running diagonally from top right to bottom left. The Favosites is very thin here, but on the opposite side, as shown in the photo above it's a big blob. 

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A part of the articulaton surface of the crinoid stem where it was broken off

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The other end of the crinoid stem section

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Corallites

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What a tremendous specimen! 

 

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the determination of paleozoic corals is best aided and assisted by microstructural studies :

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Here is a typical sample of the hash pieces from the Waldron Shale.

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It is typical in that it is full of bits of bryozoa, crinoid columnals and brachiopods, most of it pretty smashed up. 

Thanks to Deb @Paleome for this and all the bryozoan specimens that I'm showing in the next several posts. 

The micro matrix i was sent contains more bits of bryozoan than anything else. The bryozoan fauna of the Waldron shale is rich and diverse, including many different Orders, and lots of different lifestyles to cope with the muddy conditions. 

It's taken me a month to sort through the bryozoan bits and attempt some ids, but I am aware that bryozoans really need to be identified by cross-section and not by external appearance alone, but I've had a go at it anyway. 

I think that Eridotrypa echinata is the most common species, at least in the limited sample I have been lucky enough to be given from one locality in Indiana, In older literature this is listed as Trematopora echinata. The genus is represented in the British Wenlock by the common Eridotrypa cava (see page 6 of this thread) and in Gotland by uncertain species due to poor preservation of the specimens. Here are the specimens, some in matrix and some loose, that I reckon belong to just this one species

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I have not counted them, but it's a lot! Don't worry, I won't post photos of them all, but I'll give them a fair representation. 

The species has quite thin, stick like, branching stems, though some sections are straighter and unbranched, but probably because all of these are fragments of bigger branching bryozoans that have been smashed up before fossilization. It has closely packed zooecia, separated by thick, polygonal walls on the surface of the zooarium.

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Often, much of the detail is obscured by calcite, mud or bryzoan epizoans:

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When only the walls are exposed and the zooecia buried, they can look a lot like tiny Favosites :

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Though some of the thinner pieces have more ovoid openings :

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This one bifurcates

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As does this one which seems to have a clump of what i think is the blobby encrusting bryozoan Lioclema excul growing on it

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The ends generally don't show much detail at all, but might if they were properly polished :

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Calcite covering? 

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Bit of detail of a worn end :

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Sometimes, the calcite allows one to see the protruding acanthopores (protruding hollow spines) that are occasionally present. These are often called styles in modern literature, but I prefer the old name

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Acanthopores also visible here :

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Many specimens have a rounded to pointy base; I believe they were not anchored to anything but just sticking out of the mud. 

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But i was interested in this object :

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Bit of trilobite spine, perhaps? 

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Another common trepostome bryozoan from the Waldron Shale is Hallopora aff. H. elegantula, sometimes just referred to as Hallopora elegantula and in some older literature was Callopora elegantula. It's nice to see the trepostomes doing so well all over the world in the Middle Silurian as they suffered badly at the end of the period and lost a lot of their dominance of bryozoan faunas which they'd had from the Middle Ordovician. I think some experts are / were uncertain of the species as, although it seems very close to the H. elegantula found in the British Much Wenlock Formation, it is usualy much smaller so the question is, is it a different species or not as big due to unfavourable environmental conditions? Hallopora also occurs in the Wenlock of Gotland, but the preservation again is not good enough to assign them to a species. 

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The zooecial openings are rounded, with a raised margin around them, irregularly spaced; sometimes close together, sometimes with quite a gap between them. There are mesopores present that are not always easily seen. 

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Mud has obscured much of the surface of this specimen, but it does allow for a clear view of the raised rims around the zooecia which are poking out 

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This one seems to have a holdfast at one end which is slightly curved as though it were attached to a rounded object. I understand that some holdfasts have been found on the calyxes of crinoids, possible post mortem

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This one's weird :

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There is another species of Hallopora found in the Waldron Shale.

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 Hallopora consimilis looks H. elegantula but is an encruster, usually flat, wavy or slightly curved, occasionally more tightly curved as if around a crinoid stem. I do know it is sometimes found on crinoid calyxes. The epitheca (underside) is fairly flat and featureless. This species was formerly known as Berenicea consimilis. 

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Epitheca of the same specimen. 

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Epitheca of this second specimen. On the right edge you can see the thinness of the zooarium  :

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Reverse of the above specimen. Judging by the possible ribs, this may possibly have been an epibiont growing on a brachiopod?  :

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Note the extreme thinness :

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This one may have been coiled around a crinoid stem? 

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The epitheca

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There are plenty of other encrusting bryozoa in the Waldron Shale.

Here are three of the larger, sheet like forms

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The four pieces on the right side of the photograph belong to Fistulipora neglecta. Unusually for this genus, this species has its zooecia quite tightly packed together and quite large at 1/4 to 1/3 of a mm in diameter. They are projecting and in subregular rows, punctuated by small, inconspicuous maculae. The colonies are 1 to 3 mm thick.

Fistulipora is represented in the British Wenlock by F nummulina, which is the most common bryozoan in the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, and by F. crassa, a branching form. 

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Maculae pointing up out of the covering matrix :

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Close up of zooecia :

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Side view :

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Closer

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Another specimen :

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And another :

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The group bottom left in the top photo of the post above are  Fistulipora halli, similar in some regards to F. neglecta shown above, but with conspicuous sharp monticules, zooecia which are much smaller at a diameter of about 1/6th of a mm, and more widely separated by mesopores.

A comparatively unworn fragment, clearly showing the monticules, the zooecia more obvious to the right and bottom where the specimen is more worn down :

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'Wrinkled' epitheca :

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A specimen polished by nature and thus more clearly showing the zooecia. Some mesopores are visible

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The epitheca of the above specimen

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Another specimen

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And another :

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And a final, rather beautiful, specimen for now :

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Not sure about this one. The large openings and flat monticules suggest some species of Ceramopora but it's really a not very convincing guess.

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Blobby, Blobby, Blobby! 

There are quite a few blobby bryozoan colonies either seemingly growing free in the mud or clinging to other bryozoans, brachiopods or crinoids. 

These are likely to be either Ceramopora, so named because of its tiny, partly covered and almost indiscernible zooecia which gives the surface of the zooarium a smooth look like ceramic, and/or Leioclema exsul, which has a very similar appearance and cross-sections and a more powerful microscope would be needed to tell them apart.  Indeed, Leioclema has been placed in the Trepostomata but the family to which it belongs remains unclear. Leioclema is also known as Lioclema. 

Some of these encrustations might be calcite, I suppose? 

Here are a few of them, others have appeared on some of the pieces shown in earlier posts and there are more to come...............

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This one is covering part of a ramose bryozoan

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And this

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Encrusting a sheet bryozoan

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Free living? Or fell off something? 

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Encrusting a ramose bryozoan again :

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Some interesting forms occur :

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This one looks a bit like a trilobite cranidium, sort of similar to Calymene. But I think it's another 'blobby' bryozoan.

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It would be remiss of me not to mention a rather interesting bryozoan that grew in concentric circles on the muddy sea floor. 

Lichenalia concentrica is not uncommon, but I don't have any in my samples, unfortunately. 

So I've nicked a picture or two of the species posted by @RCFossils a decade or so back.

It's a lovely one, so i hope he doesn't mind. :)

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5 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

This one looks a bit like a trilobite cranidium, sort of similar to Calymene. But I think it's another 'blobby' bryozoan.

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13 minutes ago, piranha said:

 

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How marvelous! 

And there was I thinking I was suffering from pareidolia. 

Makes a nice change from all the bryozoa, fascinating though they are.

Thanks, Scott. :fistbump:

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