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. From Wordnik.com. [Continuation…] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
Bryozoa, specimens found during voyage of "Beagle.". From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
This extremely graceful form is common on Bryozoa at Woods Hole. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference
It is usually present on Campanularian hydroids, but may be found on algæ and Bryozoa. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference
Bryozoa should have been placed under an independent head, as a subdivision of Molusca and not under Radiata. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference
(viz. the Polyzoa or, as they are sometimes called, the Bryozoa). From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Cellaria, a genus of Bryozoa, placed in the section Flustrina of the Suborder Chilostomata.) (a new genus) each cell provided with long toothed bristle, these are capable of various and rapid motions. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Bryozoa, 81. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Bryozoa, Polyparia, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
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