| Lophophorata Temporal range:  | |
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| Bryozoa | |
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| Brachiopod | |
| Scientific classification   | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa | 
| Clade: | ParaHoxozoa | 
| Clade: | Bilateria | 
| Clade: | Nephrozoa | 
| Clade: | Protostomia | 
| Clade: | Spiralia | 
| Superphylum: | Lophotrochozoa | 
| Clade: | Lophophorata Meglitsch, 1972 | 
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The Lophophorata (also called Tentaculata; not to be confused with Tentaculata Eschscholtz 1825, a class within the Ctenophora) are a Lophotrochozoan clade consisting of the Brachiozoa and the Bryozoa. [2] [3] [4] [5] They have a lophophore. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that lophophorates are protostomes, but on morphological grounds they have been assessed as deuterostomes. [6] Fossil finds of the "tommotiid" Wufengella suggest that they evolved from worm-like animals that resembled annelids. [7] [8]