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(zoology, of hinge teeth) Simple in shape, not interlocking with the dental socket..
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.
The deltidiodont morphology did not survive the end-Permian extinctions; the modern articulated brachiopod fauna is dominated by cyrtomatodonts with crurae and loops.
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Deltidiodont means (zoology, of hinge teeth) Simple in shape, not interlocking with the dental socket..
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Possible antonyms include cyrtomatodont.
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.
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