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- proper noun A taxonomic
phylum within thesuperphylum Protostomia — thepolyzoa .
Etymologies
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The only modern phylum with an adequate fossil record to appear after the Cambrian was the phylum Bryozoa, which is not known before the early Ordovician.
Continuation… 2008
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Among Mollusks, the lower Bivalves, that is, the Brachiopods and Bryozoa, still prevailed, while Ammonites continued to be very numerous, differing from the earlier ones chiefly in the ever-increasing complications of their inner partitions, which become so deeply involuted and cut upon their margins, before the type disappears, as to make an intricate tracery of very various patterns on the surface of these shells.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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It was with great delight that Colin heard of the presence of his friend Mr. Collier, who was working on the plans for a model of Bryozoa, and who had with him his staff of glass-workers and modelers.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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It is usually present on Campanularian hydroids, but may be found on algæ and Bryozoa.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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This extremely graceful form is common on Bryozoa at Woods Hole.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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* The drawings I still have, but the manuscript I lost at the time of Sherman's raid and the burning of Columbia, S.C. Page 143 study under the microscope of the development of Bryozoa.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903
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We find the vascular system in this very simple form to-day in the Bryozoa, Rotatoria, Nematoda, and other lower Vermalia.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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-- Bryozoa should have been placed under an independent head, as a subdivision of Molusca and not under Radiata.
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Bryozoa, specimens found during voyage of "Beagle."
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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(viz. the Polyzoa or, as they are sometimes called, the Bryozoa).
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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