Brachiozoa is a grouping of
lophophorate
The Lophophorata are a Lophotrochozoan clade consisting of the Brachiozoa and the Bryozoa. They have a lophophore. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that lophophorates are protostomes, but on morphological grounds they have been assesse ...
animals including
Brachiopoda and
Phoronida.
It also includes their ancestors, the extinct
tommotiid
Tommotiids are an extinct group of Cambrian invertebrates thought to be early lophophorates (the group containing Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, and Phoronida).
The majority of tommotiids are mineralised with calcium phosphate rather than calcium car ...
s.
References
Lophophorata
Protostome unranked clades
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