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Celleporidae

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Celleporidae
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Celleporidae is a family of bryozoans – colonial, aquatic, invertebrates – in the order Cheilostomatida. Structurally, they are defined by densely packed zooids (individual animals which make up the colony). The zooids usually have irregular direction, and are defined by morphological characteristics.[1] Masses of the dead animals can form shallow sediments.[2] Members of the family are recorded from every ocean, even around Antarctica, where they are represented primarily by the genus Osthimosia.[1][3] Fossils of the family exist as old as from 235 million years ago, during the Triassic period.[4]

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Genera

  • Buffonellaria
  • Buskea
  • Calvipelta
  • Cellepora
  • Celleporina
  • Chasmatooecium
  • Chasmazoon
  • Galeopsis
  • Lagenipora
  • Omalosecosa
  • Orthoporidroides
  • Osthimosia
  • Palmicellaria
  • Pourtalesella
  • Predanophora
  • Pseudocelleporina
  • Richbunea
  • Scorpiodinipora
  • Sinuporina
  • Spigaleos
  • Tegminula
  • Turbicellepora

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