Biomineralization in bryozoans: present, past and future

PD Taylor, C Lombardi, S Cocito - Biological Reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Many animal phyla have the physiological ability to produce biomineralized skeletons with
functional roles that have been shaped by natural selection for more than 500 million years …

Growth and calcification of marine bryozoans in a changing ocean

AM Smith - The Biological Bulletin, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Bryozoans are colonial benthic marine invertebrate calcifiers, important and especially
abundant and diverse in southern hemisphere shelf environments. Large heavily calcified …

[HTML][HTML] Bryozoan framework composition in the oddly shaped reefs from Abrolhos Bank, Brazil, southwestern Atlantic: taxonomy and ecology

LV Ramalho, PD Taylor, FC Moraes, R Moura… - Zootaxa, 2018 - mapress.com
Bryozoans are a key group of sessile invertebrates in some reef frameworks but are typically
neglected in environmental monitoring programs. Abrolhos Bank (Brazil) is the largest reef …

Pliocene seasonality across the North Atlantic inferred from cheilostome bryozoans

T Knowles, PD Taylor, M Williams, AM Haywood… - Palaeogeography …, 2009 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown an inverse correlation between zooid size in cheilostome
bryozoans and ambient water temperature. This relationship underlies the MART technique …

Growing up in the temperate zone: age, growth, calcification and carbonate mineralogy of Melicerita chathamensis (Bryozoa) in southern New Zealand

AM Smith, EI Lawton - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010 - Elsevier
The cheilostome bryozoan Melicerita chathamensis from the continental shelf around
southern New Zealand is unusual in having macroscopic annual growth checks. It thus …

Environmental change prior to the K–T boundary inferred from temporal variation in the morphology of cheilostome bryozoans

A O'Dea, E Håkansson, PD Taylor… - Palaeogeography …, 2011 - Elsevier
Fluctuations in the marine environment just prior to the K–T extinction event have been
inferred from several geological sections around the world. Most previous studies have …

The Lilliput effect in colonial organisms: cheilostome bryozoans at the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction

CE Sogot, EM Harper, PD Taylor - Plos One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Consistent trends towards decreasing body size in the aftermath of mass extinctions–Lilliput
effects–imply a predictable response among unitary animals to these events. The …

Biodiversity and Ecology of Bryozoans from the Bay of Bengal, East coast of India

T Symphonia, S Nathan - Journal of the Geological Society of India, 2022 - Springer
The ecological record of bryozoans from the continental shelf-slope region of the
southwestern Bay of Bengal is very sparse, prompting this investigation. Forty-five sea-floor …

Phylogeny of genus Cupuladria (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) in the Neogene of tropical America

A Herrera-Cubilla, JBC Jackson - Journal of Paleontology, 2014 - cambridge.org
We used 57 morphometric characters to discriminate 17 extant and fossil Cupuladria
species and analyzed their phylogenetic relationships in relation to extant Discoporella …

Threshold effects of food concentration on the skeletal morphology of the bryozoan Electra pilosa (Linnaeus, 1767)

SJ Hageman, LL Needham, CD Todd - Lethaia, 2009 - idunn.no
Many palaeontological studies rely heavily on characteristics of the preserved phenotype, ie
the morphology of skeletal hard parts. Although the potential for environmental influences on …