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Ophiuroid ?


Rockwood

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I've been sorting through some of my old finds. I just happened to put this small spot on a piece from Swatra St. Park in PA under a lens. It's tiny. The scale seen is in mm.

Is this the arm of a brittle star ?

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The structure appear to alternate from side to side, not something that occurs on a brittle star. It might be a bryozoan and the alternating structures are the sediment filled zooids.

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39 minutes ago, Al Dente said:

The structure appear to alternate from side to side, not something that occurs on a brittle star. It might be a bryozoan and the alternating structures are the sediment filled zooids.

There were a lot bryozoans in there. Later I found this shape in parallel rows, so I kind of suspected that might be it.

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