ptilodictyoid

fossil cryptostome

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In moss animal: Evolution and paleontology
…or lacy colonies in the ptilodictyoids, or branching in rhabdomesoids, and were the dominant bryozoans from the start of the Devonian until the Permian (416 million to 299 million years ago). For reasons not yet clear, the cryptostomes dwindled and became extinct soon after the end of the Paleozoic Era…
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