Brachiopod Anatomy
Brachiopod Taxonomy
Bryozoan Anatomy
Bryozoan Taxonomy
Evolution and Origins
100
The structure used to capture food particles
What is the lophophore
100
A modern inarticulate brachiopod with a long pedicle
What is Lingula
100
A single bryozoan animal
what is a zooid
100
Corkscrew shaped bryozoan
What is Archimedes
100
Brachiopods were abundant until the end Permian extinction, after which what group ecologically replaced them?
What are bivalves or Bivalvia
200
The circle opening on the pedicle valve that receives the pedicle
What is the foramen
200
Biconvex, strophic brachiopod of the order Rhynochonellida
what is Atrypa
200
Large holes occupied by larger zooids often with diaphragms forming the floor
What is an Autopore
200
Fan shaped bryozoan with fenestrules
What is Fenestella
200
Pwackia, once thought to be the first Cambrian bryozoan is now thought to belong to this group of animals
What are corals/cnidarians
300
This type of brachiopod lobe morphology
What is bi-convex
300
The order Strophomena belongs to
What is Strophomenida
300
A colony of bryozoan zooids
What is a zooarium
300
Bryozoan with many dendritic branches covered with zooids
Hallopora
300
Bryozoans first appear in the fossil record (be specific)
What is the Early Ordovician
400
This major structure differentiates articulate brachipods from inarticulate brachiopods
what is tooth and socket
400
Articulate brachiopod with a very prominent fold and sulcus
What is Paraspirifer
400
Curved floors at forming the floor for some autopores, differs from autopores in that they do not span the entire autopore
What are cystiphragms
400
Dome-shaped bryozoan zooarium with small nodose ornamentation
What is Prasopora
400
Brachiopods and bryozoans are both classified as what kind of feeder
what are filter feeders
500
A triangular shaped receptacle for the pedicle
What is delthyrium
500
Strongly concavo-convex shell with prominent beak and sometimes small nodose ornamentation
What is Dictyoclostus
500
Structure which forms window-like openings in some fenestellid bryozoans (structures themselves do not possess zooids)
what is a fenestrule
500
Hallopora and Prasopora both belong to what order
What is Treptostomata
500
The least inclusive group that contains Mollusks, Bryozoans, and Brachiopods
What is Lophotrochozoa