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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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Like MF1, it also includes skeletal detritus of bryozoan, crinoids, ostracods and brachiopod shells.
Diagenetic History and Microfacies Analysis of Upper Permian Wargal Limestone in the Central Salt Range, 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
The 2015 survey of the sand flat: Examples of the brachiopod G.
Braquiopodos, sipunculidos, enteropneustos y metales en dos planicies estuarinas de marea, Pacifico, Costa Rica
Bioclasts are about 60% and includes predominantly brachiopods, bivalves and different types and shapes of brachiopod spines.
MICROFACIES AND DIAGENETIC ANALYSIS OF AMB FORMATION WESTERN PART OF CENTRAL SALT RANGE, PAKISTAN
1962 Leiorhynchus russelli Brachiopod Loris Shano Russell, former Curator
What's in a name? Over the last century the ROM has been home to some of this country's most distinguished scientists, researchers, and curators, many of whom have lent their names to newly discovered specimens
The maximum width (mm) of each tagged brachiopod was measured to the nearest 0.5 mm using vernier calipers.
Reproduction and growth of the terebratulid brachiopod Liothyrella Neozelanica Thomson, 1918 from doubtful sound, New Zealand
KEY WORDS: C value enigma, flow cytometry, brachiopod, lamp shell, Lingula
First extensive examination of genome size in phylum brachiopoda (Lamp Shells) collected from Japan
The present research was aimed at introducing Late Permian brachiopods in stratigraphic section so as to determine their age and stratigraphic correlation as well as stratigraphically examining the value of recognizing brachiopod fossils (Figure 2).
Late Permian brachiopoda fauna in north-western Iran
Astonishingly, abundance did not help brachiopod species persist for extended periods outside of the extinction event.
Numbers 'don't always guard against extinction risk'
The phosphatized examples, in contrast, are elongate to round in outline and variably 'segmented' or spiriform; one specimen contains numerous brachiopod shell fragments and was clearly produced by a predator or scavenger.
Great Canadian Lagerstatten 2. Macro- and microfossils of the Mount Cap Formation (Early and Middle Cambrian, northwest territories)
The brachiopod shells were examined under a camera lucida and transverse serial sections were obtained by gridding one internal mold with 600 powder on glass plate.
Registro de Sellithyris sella (brachiopoda) en la formacion Rosablanca, Boyaca-Colombia
Although the systematic position of that brachiopod is uncertain, its shell structure is of interest as it differs from those of the other Cambrian lingulate brachiopods identified in the same region.
A new type of shell structure in a phosphatic brachiopod from the Cambrian of Estonia/Eesti Kambriumist parinevate fosfaatse kojaga kasijalgsete poolmete uus struktuurituup

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