This bryozoan Prasopora patera encrusts both brachiopods and bivalve mollusks.

imprint of Bivalve
Ctenodonta

The colony formed many layers, getting much larger than the host animal.

imprint of Brachiopod:
Reserella, also shown on the right.

This Gastropod surface is encrusted with Bryozoan: Atactoporella insueta

This Bryzoan forms only a single layer, Almost every snail in the Hermitage is covered with a colony.

Bivalve Mollusk:
Ctenodonta hermitagensis

Like clams, the top and bottom shells of Mollusks are identical.

Brachiopods are from a totally different phylum, and are symmetric from side to side.

Cephalopod:
Actinoceras capitolinum

Not common and very
small compared to later
periods.

Trilobite:
Possibly
Bumastoides

Rare, and generally found only as fragments

Slabs show the abundance of life during the
deposition of the Hermitage Formation.