A Large Brachiopod with a small inarticulate Brachiopod attached.

Submitted by: Ken Dobson
Taxon: Orthospirifer cooperi, Petrocrania hamiltonae, Hederella
Submit date: 2008-10-07
Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH
Stratigraphy: Silica Formation
Age: Erian (Middle Devonian)
Submitter notes: The muddy bottom of the Devonian seas over Michigan seemed to have few hard places for animals to attach and therefore almost any hard surface was prime real estate. This inarticulate has attached itself to the larger brachiopod for a safe place but this proved a mistake as they died togather. Some small bryozoan also have grown on both.

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