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单词 rudist
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rudistadj.n.

Brit. /ˈruːdɪst/, U.S. /ˈrudɪst/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rudistes.
Etymology: < French rudistes, plural noun ( Lamarck Hist. nat. des animaux sans vertèbres (1819) VI. i. 230) < either French rude or classical Latin rudis uneven, rough (for both, see rude adj.) + -iste -ist suffix, with reference to the roughness or irregularity of the shells. Compare scientific Latin rudista , specific name (Lamarck 1819), Rudista , family name ( J. E. Gray Synopsis Contents Brit. Mus. (ed. 21, 1823) 62), German Rudisten (plural), (1838 or earlier). Compare Rudistae n.
Palaeontology.
A. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the order Hippuritoida (or Rudistes) of extinct bivalve molluscs having elongate shells, found in marine deposits of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. rare before 20th cent.Cretaceous forms are notable for their asymmetric shells, with a flattened lid above a conical lower valve. Colonies of these sessile animals trapped sediments to produce extensive reefs.
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1845 C. Lyell in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 1 60 In the collection of Mr. Conrad, from Alabama, I saw a species of Hippurite..which I believe is the only example of any fossil of the Rudist family derived from the cretaceous rocks of North America.
1954 Jrnl. Paleontol. 28 623/1 He applied the name ‘Plum Road Formation’ to the earlier rudist limestones of Trinidad.
1978 Nature 26 Oct. 779/2 Future editions could be improved by the inclusion of a few famous foreign examples such as the Burgess Shale fauna and a rudist reef association.
2003 M. F. Zagrarni et al. in E. Gili et al. North Afr. Cretaceous Carbonate Platform Syst. 111 Each sequence starts with bioclastic limestones rich in rudist debris.
B. n.
A fossil mollusc of the order Hippuritoida (or Rudistes); a rudistid.
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the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of
astroite1610
belemnite1646
mussel-stone1660
scallop-stone1668
trochite1676
conchite1677
ophiomorphite1677
pectinite1677
worm-stone1677
musculite1681
serpent-stone1681
sugar-plum1681
glossopetraa1684
ague shell1708
forket1708
mytilite1727
grit1748
phytolithus1761
fairy beads1767
fairy fingers1780
fairy arrow1794
gryphite1794
ram's horn1797
hysterolite1799
tubulite1799
thunder-pick1801
celleporite1808
ceraunite1814
seraph1822
serpulite1828
coprolite1829
subfossil1831
pencil1843
trigonellite1845
buccinite1852
rudist1855
guide fossil1867
witch's cradle1867
coccolith1868
fairy cheeses1869
discolith1871
Portland screw1871
spiniferite1872
cyatholith1875
cryptozoon1883
sabellite1889
palaeospecies1895
homoeomorph1898
rudistid1900
megafossil1932
scolecodont1933
macrofossil1937
hystrichosphere1955
palynomorph1961
acritarch1963
molecular fossil1965
mitrate1967
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Hippuritidae > member of
hippurite1798
spherulite1834
radiolite1835
rudist1855
rudistid1900
1855 D. T. Ansted in Orr's Circle Sci.: Inorg. Nature 106 Besides the Rudists, of which the hippurite and crania are good examples, there are numerous chambered shells.
1933 Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 44 379 The way was opened for the remarkable series of evolutionary changes shown by the Rudists.
1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles xiv. 332 The coral-like Rudists are important, forming reef environments in Tethys.
2005 Nature 27 Oct. p. xi/1 Rudists are extinct bivalves that lived in warm, shallow oceans at low latitudes; some developed bizarre, occasionally large shells.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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