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