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sTamprockcoin Regular Member

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Found this today, I used to call these coral but I think they're actually bryozoa. Am I correct?  Sorry I forgot scale its about 1.5 by 2 inches. 

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Fossildude19 Regular Member

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Hey Tim, 

I think bryozoan is correct. 

Where was this found? 

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Altoona Pa, silurian (my bad) Wills Creek formation.

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Bronzviking Regular Member

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The protrusion looks like branch coral to me that is covered with bryozoan in some areas. But I just read that others resemble antlers or mosses. So it could be the form the colonies took that resembles branch coral. Pretty cool piece!

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Rockwood Regular Member

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There are tabulate corals that have a similar growth pattern, but the count of them across the branch makes the size a better match for that of a zooid I think.

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