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A new Eocene species of the hermit-crab symbiont Hippoporidra (Bryozoa) from the Ocala limestone of Florida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Paul D. Taylor  and
Kevin S. Schindler
Paul D. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom,
Kevin S. Schindler
Affiliation:
Lowell Observatory, 1400 W. Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, Arizona 86001,
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Colonial metazoans that lived symbiotically with hermit-crabs create striking and distinctive fossils. Examples of such fossils recorded (Schindler and Portell, 1993) from Cenozoic deposits in Florida include the scleractinian coral Septastrea marylandica (Conrad, 1841) (see Darrell and Taylor, 1989), the hydrozoan Cystactinia ocalana Brooks, 1964, and the bryozoan Hippoporidra edax (Busk, 1859) [recorded as H. calcarea (Smitt) by Scolaro, 1970]. In all of these fossils, the symbiotic colony covers the entire external surface of a gastropod shell with a thick encrustation. Growth of the colony outwards from the shell aperture in the form of a helicospiral tube greatly extends the size of the chamber available for the hermit-crab occupant. In no known fossil examples of symbioses are the hermit-crabs preserved in situ. However, modern analogues, along with functional morphological considerations, provide good criteria for inferring that this peculiar colonial growth pattern occurred in response to the presence of a symbiotic hermit-crab, at least for examples within the Lower Jurassic-Recent range known for fossil hermit-crabs (see Walker, 1992; Taylor, 1994).

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 78 , Issue 4 , July 2004 , pp. 790 - 794
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