Each animal lives in its own chamber, giving the colony a honeycomb appearance. The most common bryozoan fossils here resemble twigs and gum drops. Cephalopods are related to gastropods. Cephalopods lack feet and their shells are chambered. The cephalopods fossilized here are related to the chambered nautilus of today.
Corals are tiny flower-like animals that live in colonies.
They are soft-bodied but secrete hard outer skeletons that form coral reefs. The fossils found in Vermont represent the first known species of coral. Crinoids are related to starfish and sea urchins. They look like plants because the animal lives in a cup atop a stalk of columnals. Most often, only the fossilized columnals are found.