Meanings
- not comparablebiologyHaving a polyparium with a single row of cells.
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Two leading types may be distinguished amongst the Graptolites, which are termed respectively "monoprionidian" and "diprionidian." The monoprionidian Graptolites, such as Monograptiis priodon (fig. 54), are distinguished by the fact that the polypary, whether simple or branched, possesses but a single row of cellules or "hydrothecæ." In the diprionidian forms, on the other hand, as in Diplograptus (fig. 63), the polypary possesses a row of cellules on each side.
1879, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, A manual of palaeontology for the use of students with a general introduction on the principles of palaeontology
Origin
- Ancient Greekμόνος“single”
- taxonomic nameMonoprion“section of genus Graptolithus”
- Englishmonoprionidian
From the now disused taxonomic name Monoprion (“section of genus Graptolithus”), coined by the French geologist and palaeontologist Joachim Barrande in 1850 from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “single”) + πρίων (príōn, “a saw”), + -idian.
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