Rhabdopleurid Colony (IMAGE)

University at Buffalo

Rhabdopleurid Colony

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This is a colony of A Rhabdopleura compacta. Rhabdopleurids, which have lived at the ocean bottom for some 500 million years, build such colonies from collagen they secrete.

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University of Edinburgh

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