#bryzoans

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Bryozoans??? Membranipora membranacea and Integripelta bilabiata are particularly good species :D

Oooh what a fun one! I'll include a photo of each of the particular species you've mentioned.

Have you seen a bryozoan (Phylum: Bryozoa)?

I have now

Yes, in photos/videos

Yes, irl

I'm not sure

Voting ended onJan 18

[loxare]

I recently found my sea shell and thought I'd share

I have no idea where it's from except that it was in my grandma's house when I first found it. The outside is a coral pink and the inside is mother of pearl

It's also huge but anyways

My fave part though is the bryzoans encrusted on the outside

It's the white stuff with all the little holes

Obviously they're all dead, being out of the water and whatnot, leaving behind only their calcite skeletons. But they're so very neato and I love them lots

[uk-fossils]

Bryozoans in the English Chalk

Bryozoans in the English Chalk

We are very fortunate in Britain to host one of the most remarkable deposits in the entire geological record, the Chalk. The Late Cretaceous Chalk (with a capital ‘C’) is an extremely pure limestone, famous for the White Cliffs of Dover and responsible for the landscape of rolling hills and dry valleys, forming the ‘downs’ and ‘wolds’ that stretch through England from Devon in the southwest, to…

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