burlingiiform

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adjective

Of the facial sutures of a trilobite, having a proparian pattern in which anterior and posterior sutures run subparallel to create roughly rectangular fixigenae.

OriginLatin fōrma ← taxonomic name Burlingiidae →
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Meanings

adjectiveburlingiiform (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyOf the facial sutures of a trilobite, having a proparian pattern in which anterior and posterior sutures run subparallel to create roughly rectangular fixigenae.

    Trilobites of the Burlingiidae Walcott, 1908 are small, usually less than 10 mm in length, with a proparian facial suture called the burlingiiform type (Whittington 1959, 1997).

    2017, Jan R. Ove Ebbestad, Thomas Weidner, “Extreme protomeric development in a burlingiid trilobite from Cambrian glacial erratics of Denmark”, in Palaeontology, volume 60, number 2

Origin

  1. taxonomic nameBurlingiidae
  2. Latinfōrma
  3. Englishburlingiiform

From taxonomic name Burlingiidae + English -form.

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