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Bryozoa

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | © The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2009, originally published by Oxford University Press 2009. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Bry·o·zo·a / ˌbrīəˈzōə/ Zool. a phylum of sedentary aquatic invertebrates that comprises the moss animals. DERIVATIVES: bry·o·zo·an n. & adj.

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Magazine article from: Journal of the Czech Geological Society; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...description of two species of cyclostomatous Bryozoa: Tholopora(?) novaki (Gregory, 1909...of the Upper Turonian age. Key words: Bryozoa; Cyclostomata; Upper Cretaceous; Bohemian...to record finds of interesting taxa of Bryozoa in sediments of the Bohemian Cretaceous...
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Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...appeared first in Late Jurassic time (Taylor, 1994) and subsequently proliferated rapidly to become the dominant order of Bryozoa in modern seas. Morphological features that characterize a broad spectrum of cheilostome taxa-such as multiserial colony...
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Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ABSTRACT-In many species of lower Paleozoic trepostomes (Bryozoa; class Stenolaemata) transverse partitions called skeletal diaphragms differentiated feeding from non-feeding regions of colonies...
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NEW CARBONIFEROUS BRYOZOA OF THE BIRD SPRING FORMATION, SOUTHERN NEVADA
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; INTRODUCTION BRYOZOANS WERE collected from a thin shaley limestone in the lower part of the Bird Spring Formation in the northern part of the Muddy Mountains, Clark County, southern Nevada (Fig. 1). The purpose of this paper is to describe a new genus and two new species of these bryozoans. The
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Bryozoa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Bryozoa , name of a phylum, in older systems of classification, that included the invertebrate animals now classified in the phyla Entoprocta and Ectoprocta . The term bryozoan (or moss animal) is still commonly used for members of the Ectoprocta.
Bassler, Raymond Smith
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...world authority on Silurian and Ordovician Bryozoa, Bassler assembled an outstanding collection...x201D; (1915), “ Early Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces ”...x201C; Synopsis of American Fossil Bryozoa ” (1900). His study of other...
Busk, George
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...two main interests in science were the Bryozoa (Polyzoa) and paleontology. In 1856...the first scientific arrangement of the Bryozoa, the notes and drawings for which are...the name Buskia was given to a genus of Bryozoa. His collection is at the Natural History...
Ectoprocta
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology Ectoprocta 1. (phylum Bryozoa ) The major subphylum of bryozoans, in which the lophophore surrounds the mouth but not the...exclusively, marine, and have an extensive fossil record from the Ordovician to the present. 2. See BRYOZOA .
Entoprocta
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences Entoprocta (phylum Bryozoa ) Subphylum of freshwater bryozoans which entirely lack a mineralized skeleton. The lophophore...Entoprocta was classified as a separate animal phylum, although its many resemblances to the Bryozoa were recognized.

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