bryozoans

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• bryozoans — n.; n. pl. [Gr. bryon, moss; zoon, animal] A phylum of sessile aquatic coelomates, formerly subdivided into Ectoprocta and Entoprocta, and commonly called moss animals …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• List of prehistoric bryozoans — This list of prehistoric bryozoans is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the bryozoa which are known fro the fossil record. This list excludes purely vernacular terms. It includes all… …   Wikipedia

• Bryozoa — Temporal range: Upper Cambrian–Recent[1] …   Wikipedia

• moss animal — bryozoan. [1880 85] * * * ▪ invertebrate Introduction also called  bryozoan,         any member of the phylum Bryozoa (also called Polyzoa or Ectoprocta), in which there are about 5,000 extant species. Another 15,000 species are known only from… …   Universalium

• Cyclostomatida — Temporal range: Lower Ordovician–Recent …   Wikipedia

• Taxonomy of commonly fossilised invertebrates — Although the phylogenetic classification of sub vertebrate animals (both extinct and extant) remains a work in progress, the following taxonomy attempts to be useful by combining both traditional (old) and new (21st century) paleozoological… …   Wikipedia

• Jos Massard — Joseph Albert Massard (* 3. Dezember 1944 in Tétange, Luxemburg), ist ein Luxemburger Biologe und Wissenschafts und Medizinhistoriker. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Biographische Notiz 2 Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl) 2.1 Bücher …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Ordovician — Period 488.3–443.7 million years ago …   Wikipedia

• Ordovician Period — Interval of geologic time, 490–443 million years ago, the second oldest period of the Paleozoic Era. It follows the Cambrian and precedes the Silurian. During the Ordovician, many of the landmasses were aligned in the tropics. Life was dominated… …   Universalium

• community ecology — Introduction       study of the organization and functioning of communities (community), which are assemblages of interacting populations of the species living within a particular area or habitat.       As populations of species interact with one …   Universalium

• Concretion — For other uses, see enterolith and nodule (geology). Septaria redirects here. For the genus of gastropods, see Septaria (gastropod). Concretions on Bowling Ball Beach (Mendocino County, California) weather out of steeply tilted Cenozoic mudstone… …   Wikipedia