phyllopod
/ˈfɪlə(ʊ)pɒd
/noun Zoology, dated
A branchiopod crustacean.The phyllopod bed is therefore exceptional for possessing both typical fossil bearing characteristics and unusual soft tissue preservation....
- Nonmarine occurrences of Rusophycus-like bilobed resting traces, widely recorded from Devonian to Permian subaqueous deposits, were probably produced by notostracan or phyllopod crustaceans.
- Classified as phyllopods due to the leaf-like appearance of their legs, fairy shrimps ‘bloom’ in mineral-rich temporary ponds, reaching ridiculously dense concentrations.
Origin
From modern Latin Phyllopoda (former class name), from Greek phullon 'leaf' + pous, pod- 'foot'.
- photocharger
- photocharging
- photochemic
- photochemical
- photochemically
- photochemical smog
- photochemist
- photochemistry
- photochemotherapy
- photochrom
- photochromatic
- photochromatic interval
- photochrome
- photochromic
- photochromicity
- photochromics
- photochromism
- photo-chromolithograph
- photochromoscope
- photochromotype
- photochromy
- photochronograph
- photochronographic
- photochronography
- photoclinometry