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brachiopod

any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves

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Chemico-structural phylogeny of the discinoid brachiopod shell.

A new type of shell structure in a phosphatic brachiopod from the Cambrian of Estonia/Eesti Kambriumist parinevate fosfaatse kojaga kasijalgsete poolmete uus struktuurituup

33%]), brachiopods (order Terebratulida [11%]), the white sea urchin (Lytechinus anamesus [9%]), the fragile sea urchin (Allocentrotus fragilis [4%]), and sea pens (suborder Subselliflorae; [2%]; Fig.

Benthic invertebrates that form habitat on deep banks off southern California, with special reference to deep sea coral

Predation by durophageous chondrichthyans explains the dorsoventral flattening of brachiopod shells in an environment with low energy currents.

A case study in paleoecology from the Mississippian of Missouri, with a focus on chondrichthyan teeth

greater than] 6 m) assemblages, composed of sponges, bryozoans, brachiopods, cnidarians, and ascidians (Grange et al.

Species diversity in subtidal landscapes: maintenance by physical processes and larval recruitment

The sequence of Permian brachiopod assemblages in South China.

A new conodont from the uppermost Lamar Limestone of the Delaware Basin of west Texas

Earliest ontogeny of Middle Ordovician rhynchonelliform brachiopods (Clitambonitoidea and Polytoechioidea): implications for brachiopod phylogeny.

Laminar shell structure of Antigonambonites planus (Pander, 1830) (Brachiopoda, Billingsellida)

The Bryozoans rich Packstone facies (AMB 3A) has good faunal preservation and is dominated by the bioclasts of bryozoan (25%), echinoderm (2%), brachiopod (15%), fusulinid (10%), and unidentified bioclast (5%).

Depositional system and sequence stratigraphy of Permian Amb Formation, Salt Ranges, Northwest Pakistan

After the opportunistic strategy conducted by Soaresirhynchia bouchardi the distribution of the post-ETMEE brachiopod assemblages is markedly influenced by the depositional sequences, entailing premature turnovers and involving the earlier record of homeomorphic morphotypes of younger terebratulides and rhynchonellides.

Lower Jurassic brachiopods from the Ibero-Levantine sector (Iberian Range): faunal turnovers and critical bioevents

Paterson, "The Scleritome of Paterimitra: An Early Cambrian Stem Group Brachiopod from South Australia," Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276 (2009): 1651-6; and L.

The fossil record of the Cambrian "explosion": resolving the tree of life

In the New Zealand fiords, where the present study was conducted, brachiopod species can be a numerically dominant component of the sessile rockwall community (Grange and Singleton, 1988; Witman and Grange, 1998; Lee et al.

Reproduction and growth of the terebratulid brachiopod Liothyrella Neozelanica Thomson, 1918 from doubtful sound, New Zealand

Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) biostratigraphy and brachiopod faunas, Canadian Arctic islands.

A new species of cyathaspid (Vertebrata: Pteraspidomorphi: Heterostraci) from the Lower Devonian Drake Bay Formation, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

In some layers, especially of the Early Pliensbachian Jamesoni Chronozone, the reworked hollow brachiopods contain crude oil, introduced during early diagenesis, before the internal pore space of the brachiopod was completely filled by the blocky generation of calcite.

The hydrocarbon source rocks of the Pliensbachian (early Jurassic) in the Asturian Basin (northern Spain): their relationship with the palaeoclimatic oscillations and gamma-ray response

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