Last year, I gave Ken McKinney, a bryozoan specialist at Appalachian State
University, directions to a temporary outcrop in Livingston, Alabama that
was yielding some nice Cretaceous bryozoans. He was ecstatic. He's giving a
talk next week in which he says that a single large oyster specimen hosted
no fewer than 50 species of attached bryozoans! This is more species than
were previously known from all localities put together from the Cretaceous
of the region bordering the Gulf of Mexico. When I clean fossils, I never
remove the attached animals; they are sometimes much more interesting than
the host.
 
Oh, the outcrop? Well, easy come, easy go. A Livingston geologist called me
the other day to say that an apartment building now covers almost all of
it. I don't quite know how to break the news to Ken. Shall I mention it
before or after he gives his talk?
 
Andrew K. Rindsberg
Geological Survey of Alabama