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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of extinct platypodous gastropods of the family Pyramidellidæ., which have turreted shells with arched whorls bearing sigmoid growth-lines and a long aperture. It ranges from the Silurian to the Trias and is particularly abundant in the Carboniferous.

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