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Celleporidae
Family of moss animals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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