Lophophorata Temporal range:
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Bryozoa | |
Brachiopod | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
Clade: | ParaHoxozoa |
Clade: | Bilateria |
Clade: | Nephrozoa |
(unranked): | Protostomia |
(unranked): | Spiralia |
Superphylum: | Lophotrochozoa |
Clade: | Lophophorata Meglitsch, 1972 |
Clades | |
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The Lophophorata or Tentaculata are a Lophotrochozoan clade consisting of the Brachiozoa and the Bryozoa.[1][2][3][4] They have a lophophore. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that lophophorates are protostomes, but on morphological grounds they have been assessed as deuterostomes.[5] Fossil finds of the "tommotiid" Wufengella suggest that they evolved from worm-like animals that resembled annelids.[6][7]
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