Cryptostomata

{{Short description|Extinct order of moss animals}}

{{About||the algal structures|Cryptostoma (disambiguation){{!}}Cryptostoma|the informal clade name "/Cryptostomata"|Banksia subg. Spathulatae}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Ordovician|Permian}}

| taxon = Cryptostomata

| authority = (Vine, 1884){{cite web |url=http://www.ordovicianatlas.org/atlas/bryozoa/stenolaemata/cryptostomata/ |title=Cryptostomata |work=Atlas of Ordovician Life |access-date=8 February 2016}}

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Cryptostomata is an order of fossil bryozoans that lived from the Ordovician to the Permian.{{cite web |url=http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bryozoa/bryozoasy.html |author=Ben Waggoner |title=Bryozoa: Systematics |work=Introduction to the Bryozoa |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |access-date=8 February 2016}}