brachiophore

plural brachiophores

1. The supporting plate for the tentacle-bearing arms on a brachiopod.

   It is readily distinguished from Schizophoria parafragilis by shape and by its widely diverging brachiophore supporting plates.

   1970, J. G. Johnson, Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda, →ISBN, page 89

   2 more examples

   The brachiophore or brachial process is a simple, somewhat flat blade located at the notothyrial margin and underlying the notothyrial edge of the interarea.

   1938, Edward Oscar Ulrich, Gustav Arthur Cooper, Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda, →ISBN, page 73

   The brachiophore processes may be negligible in the older stocks but were very well developed in some younger forms like Camerella

   1953, Raymond Cecil Moore, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology - Volume 1, page H-98