The area is underlain by extensive Pleistocene limestones with oolitic and bryozoan facies, overlaid by variable thicknesses of marl and peat, a thin porous crust which filters the surface water percolating to the aquifer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everglades National Park, United States] Reference

In the Gulf of Maine, climate change and sustained overfishing may be acting synergistically, creating an environment that favors invasive species such as the green alga Codium fragile and the bryozoan Membranipora membranacea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aquatic invasive species] Reference

The echinoderm, on the other hand (or tube foot, if you like), held back the bryozoan colony but could not continue to grow outward.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

The echinoderm was the first to latch on, gradually growing as it sat on the shell, but sometime later a bryozoan larvae also took up residence there.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

The stalemate in the edrioasteroid/bryozoan war for living space continued for a while longer as the bryozoan almost completely surrounded the edrioasteroid.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

Top of the encrusted surface of a brachiopod shell, showing the "war" between an edrioasteroid (star-shaped organism at center) and a fast-growing bryozoan colony.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

Scanning electron microscope photos of these minutely sculptured cupuladriid bryozoan fossils tell paleontologists whether the animal reproduced sexually or clonally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

I’m a lot more familiar with marine fossils mollusk, brachiopod, shells, coral and bryozoan colonies, echinoderm fossils, etc. and there is a wide variation in how easy it is to remove the fossils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fossilized Ripples - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

We obtained a radiocarbon age of 9720 +-65 14C yr from a sediment-water interface sample of AIOM and an age of 1010 +- 30 14C yr from a sample of living bryozoan calcite, which indicates the magnitude (~8700 yr of the effect of reworked carbon on our radiocarbon ages (Fig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domack on the Larsen 1-A Ice Shelf « Climate Audit] Reference

It’s a type of bryozoan, or “sea fan.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Steve and the Fossil-Fossils of De-Na-Zin - The Panda's Thumb] Reference