bryozoan
Speech parts
1. bryozoan - Noun
2. bryozoan - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa.
One of the Bryozoa.
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An Upper Ordovician cobble with the edrioasteroid Cystaster stellatus and the thin branching cyclostome bryozoan Corynotrypa.
Cheilostome bryozoan with serpulid tubes; Recent; Cape Cod Bay, Duck Creek, near Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
In 2014 it was reported that the bryozoan Fenestrulina rugula had become a dominant species in parts of Antarctica.
In the background is the cyclostome bryozoan Corynotrypa.
Nearly all post- bryozoan sediments are made up of growth forms, with the addition to free-living colonies which include significant numbers of various colonies.
Phoronids resemble bryozoan zooids but are convert long and, although they often grow in clumps, do not form colonies consisting of clones.