Description: English: Teredolites borings in a modern wharf piling; the work of bivalves known as "shipworms". Date: 19 August 2008. Source: Own work. Author:
Wilson44691. Photograph taken by Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster).
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