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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of neotrematous Brachiopoda having chitinous, subcircular plano-convex shells with an open pedicle-notch in early life which becomes inclosed as a long narrow slit partially covered behind or near the apex by a listrium.
  • A family of lyopomatous brachiopods.

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