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Crustose lichen with yellow or greenish yellow thallus and orange apothecia growing in a slender crack on the surface of a gravestone.

This lichen is growing on the same face of the same gravestone as this:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47510066

Beached and scavenged corpse of sealife. What seems to be splines from the head are keratinous and very stiff. Perhaps it is underlying gilling. Total length, about one arm. The head larger than a closed fist. What seems to be an esophagal section of the creature is very stiff, most likely from salting and sunning but untouched or infested by flies or crustacean. Local birds are aware of it but disinterested.

HarborLab. Oyster Research Station with tunicates of colors : orange, gray, blue, purple and some of them are on a long gelatin strand. A few months ago the cage was covered in a gelatinous mess. I pulled off much of it. It was very heavy. It still is, but it hasn't gotten heavier.

No fish fell out.

There was a tiny clam shell on a sediment tile. That's something I'd never seen.