单词 | spirifer |
释义 | Spirifern. Palaeontology. A genus of fossil brachiopods, found abundantly in the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous formations, characterized by long highly-developed spiral appendages; a member or species of this genus, or of the family Spiriferidæ of which it is the type. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Brachiopoda > [noun] > miscellaneous types of Spirifer1835 rhynchonellid1865 spire-bearer1881 articulate1905 1835 Penny Cycl. III. 125/1 A particular kind of fossil~shell, named a spirifer, has indeed been detected in it. 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall iii. 47 Those seams which contain casts of broken vertebral columns of..spirifers, and corals. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 205 The true Spirifers are mainly Silurian and Devonian. 1890 A. Geikie Class-bk. Geol. (ed. 2) xix. 266 The Devonian system [contains]..Cypridina-shales, Spirifer sandstone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1835 |
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