Meanings
nounhyolithid (plural hyolithids)
plural hyolithids
- A member of the Hyolithida order of extinct lophophorate animals.
A study of over 1500 specimens of Haplophrentis, a mid-Cambrian hyolithid from the celebrated Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies and the Spence Shale from Utah, has revealed the details of its soft parts.
2017 January 18, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian
Origin
From scientific Latin Hyolithida (order name).
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