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Common name: Moss Animals
Name derivation: “moss animals”
Number of Orders: 10
Number of Families: 362
Number of Genus: 2,231
Number of known Species: 20,585
Earliest Fossil Record: Ordovician 485-470 mya
Habitat: Marine, Freshwater
Size Range: Individual 0.5 mm, colonies 1 cm to 1 m
Notes: Based on Catalogue of Life as of July 2024