atrypid

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Noun

atrypid (plural atrypids)

  1. A lamp shell; a brachiopod of the order, sometimes suborder, †Atrypida
    • 2004, Paul Copper, Silurian (late Llandovery-Ludlow) Atrypid Brachiopods from Gotland, Sweden, and the Welsh Borderlands, Great Britain:
      Ribs and growth lamellae gave the shells of many atrypids the possibility to develop an array of structures.

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