Sclerobiont

Sclerobionts are collectively known as organisms living in or on any kind of hard substrate (Taylor and Wilson, 2003). A few examples of sclerobionts include

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  Entobia sponge borings and the cyclostome bryozoan Voigtopora thurni on an oyster valve from the Coon Creek Beds of the Ripley Formation (Upper Cretaceous) near Blue Springs, Mississippi.
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  Another example of Entobia sponge borings and encrusting serpulid worms on a modern shell of the bivalve Mercenaria in North Carolina.
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  Thecideide

  bivalve Ctenostreon from the Upper Jurassic of Poland

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  Serpulid worms enrusting Pecten; Duck Harbor Beach on Cape Cod Bay, Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
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  barnacles and sponge borings (Entobia

  ) from the Pliocene of York River, Virginia, USA.

See also

Bioerosion

References

• Taylor, P. D.; Wilson, M. A. (2003). "Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate communities" (PDF). Earth-Science Reviews. 62 (1–2): 1–103.
  doi:10.1016/S0012-8252(02)00131-9. Archived from the original
  (PDF) on 2009-03-25.

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