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Bryozoa on worm shell?

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Found these hiking in Orange County, California after some rain yesterday, near some fossilized scallop shells. Maybe Bryozoa covering a shell? They seem very fragile. It looks like there are uniformly spaced holes along the edges, as if there were parts protruding outward originally, or maybe those are features of the Bryozoa.

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These remind me of Hippoporidra, a type of bryozoan that colonizes pagurized shells.

 

 

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Those look like it!  Thank you for the ID!  Funny I’ve never found one at the beach but today I seemed to have found three non-fossilized.

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