sessile animal in a sentence
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- They suggested that " Stromatoveris " was an evolutionary " aunt " of ctenophores, and that ctenophores originated from sessile animals whose descendants became swimmers and changed the cilia from a feeding mechanism to a propulsion system.
- Found on rocky coasts, usually under the larger boulders encrusted in sessile animals such as bryozoans, small barnacles and ascidians . " N . violacea " preys on these and is assumed to be mainly carnivorous in its diet.
- However, fossils of a new tommotiid, " Eccentrotheca ", showed an assembled mail coat that formed a tube, which would indicate a sessile animal rather than a creeping slug-like one . " Eccentrotheca "'s organophosphatic tube resembled that of phoronids, sessile animals that feed by lophophores and are regarded either very close relatives or a sub-group of brachiopods . " Paterimitra ", another mostly assembled fossil found in 2008 and described in 2009, had two symmetrical plates at the bottom, like brachiopod valves but not fully enclosing the animal's body.
- However, fossils of a new tommotiid, " Eccentrotheca ", showed an assembled mail coat that formed a tube, which would indicate a sessile animal rather than a creeping slug-like one . " Eccentrotheca "'s organophosphatic tube resembled that of phoronids, sessile animals that feed by lophophores and are regarded either very close relatives or a sub-group of brachiopods . " Paterimitra ", another mostly assembled fossil found in 2008 and described in 2009, had two symmetrical plates at the bottom, like brachiopod valves but not fully enclosing the animal's body.