Definition of Brachiopod. Meaning of Brachiopod. Synonyms of Brachiopod

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Definition of Brachiopod

Brachiopod
Brachiopod Brach"i*o*pod, n. [Cf.F. brachiopode.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.

Meaning of Brachiopod from wikipedia

- Brachiopods (/ˈbrækioʊˌpɒd/), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of animals that have hard "valves" (s****) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the...
- Lingula is a genus of brachiopods within the class Lingulata. Lingula or forms very close in appearance have existed possibly since the Cambrian. Like...
- A study aiming to reconstruct the life cycle of the Early Cambrian brachiopods is published by Madison & Kuzmina (2019). A study on the anatomy of plectambonitoid...
- Craniata is a class of brachiopods originating in the Cambrian period and still extant today. It is the only class within the subphylum Craniiformea,...
- The origin of the brachiopods is uncertain; they either arose from reduction of a multi-plated tubular organism, or from the folding of a slug-like organism...
- Pustula is an extinct genus of brachiopods which lived during the Carboniferous period. It is the type genus of the subfamily Pustulinae. Its fossils...
- Brachiopod Mountain was named by James F. Porter for the fossil brachiopods found in the Devonian limestone of the mountain. It is located in the Slate...
- major taxonomic groups and caused the disappearance of one third of all brachiopod and bryozoan families, as well as numerous groups of conodonts, trilobites...
- Crania is an extinct genus of brachiopods that lived during the Upper Cretaceous. Crania has small (up to 2 centimetres or 0.79 inches in diameter) circular...
- the rest of the Paleozoic, such as articulate brachiopods, cephalopods, and crinoids. Articulate brachiopods, in particular, largely replaced trilobites...