atrypacean

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atrypacean (plural atrypaceans)

  1. Any brachiopod of the superfamily Atrypacea.
    • 2013, Rituparna Bose, Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods: A Case Study:
      This size difference applies to many of the Silurian-Devonian families including the spiriferids, chonetids, atrypoids, atrypaceans, and some pentameroids (mostly among the gyidulids) (Boucot et al. 2012).
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