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Description: Sponge borings (Entobia made by the genus Cliona) and encrusters on a shell of the modern hard clam, w:Mercenaria mercenaria, from North Carolina. This encrustation and boring happened after the death of the clam when the shell was empty.
Title: BoredEncrustedShell
Credit: Photograph taken by Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster). [1]
Author: Wilson44691 at English Wikipedia
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