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- protected by a calcareous or chitinous lidlike structure, an operculum. Cheilostomes possess avicularia, which have modified the operculum into a range of...
- a substrate. A few forms such as Cristatella can move. Lunulitiform cheilostomes are one group of free-living bryozoans with mobile colonies. They form...
- O'Deaa, Aaron (October 2000). "Intracolony variation in zooid size in cheilostome bryozoans as a new technique for investigating palaeoseasonality". Palaeogeography...
- Ma First blood-sucking insects (ceratopogonids), rudist bivalves, and cheilostome bryozoans. Archaeopteryx, a possible ancestor to the birds, appears in...
- encounters for space with cheilostome bryozoans. Tentacle size and number tend to be smaller in species of cyclostomes than cheilostomes. As a result, cyclostomes...
- tentacles) by muscles pulling the frontal membrane inwards (non-ascophoran cheilostomes do not need this structure as their frontal wall is not calcified and...
- housed in the zooidal exoskeleton, which in cyclostomes is tubular and in cheilostomes is box-shaped. Polypides can undergo cycles of regression and regeneration...
- Andrei N. Ostrovsky, for his studies on the reproductive structures of cheilostomes. The species epithet refers to three apices on the heterozooecium located...
- extinction during the end-Cretaceous m**** extinction, while ctenostome and cheilostome bryozoans in the class Gymnolaemata diversified around the same time...
- inhabits freshwater. They are distinguished from their close relatives, the cheilostomes, by their lack of a calcified exoskeleton. Instead, the exoskeleton is...