zaphrentoid
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Noun[edit]
zaphrentoid (plural zaphrentoids)
- (zoology) A member of the taxonomic family Zaphrentidae, a prehistoric hexacoral.
- 1914, George Gilmore Scott, A Physiological Study of the Changes in Mustelus Canis Produced by Modifications in the Molecular Concentration of the External Medium, page 189:
- Simpson in 1900 proposed Hapsiphyllum for zaphrentoids, with a horseshoe-shaped inner wall, making Zaphrentis calcareformis Hall the genotype.
- 1969, Acta palaeontologica Polonica, volume 14, page 131:
- According to Ivanovsky (1960), a structure typical of zaphrentoids is as follows: 1) corals are solitary; 2) septa have a bilateral symmetry in relation to cardinal septum situated in a fossula; […]