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The outer, often calcified, layer of the wall of an ovicell of a bryozoan..
Ovicell hyperstomial (i.e. prominent), often becoming subimmersed by secondary calcification during ontogeny, completely calcified ectooecium with conspicuous frontal pseudopores, not closed by autozooidal operculum.
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Ectooecium means The outer, often calcified, layer of the wall of an ovicell of a bryozoan..
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Ovicell hyperstomial (i.e. prominent), often becoming subimmersed by secondary calcification during ontogeny, completely calcified ectooecium with conspicuous frontal pseudopores, not closed by autozooidal operculum.
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