Billingsellacean
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Billingsellacean is a noun meaning (zoology) Any brachiopod of the superfamily Billingsellacea.
Meaning
(zoology) Any brachiopod of the superfamily Billingsellacea.
Example Sentences
The Obolellida and the basic articulate stock, the billingsellaceans, appear later in the lower Cambrian. The orthide billingsellaceans with their strophic hinge lines, deltidiodont dentition and invariably calcareous shells, comprise two families which, although morphologically similar, have a fundamentally different style of shell secretion, reflected in their various descendants.
Word Forms
- billingsellaceans
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include brachioteuthid, branchiobdellid, dalmanellidine, dalmanelloid, athyridacean, linguliform.
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