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Record 1 1977-06-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[The term articulamentum was] formerly used to indicate the inner, usually hard, semiporcelaneous shell layer, generally projecting past the tegmentum on the sides and front of the valves [of Polyplacophora] to form the insertion plates and the insertion plates and the sutural laminae; [it has been] recently restricted to indicate the shell layer between [the] tegmentum and [the] hypostracum, called the articulamentum ("sensu stricto") and composed of several separate components of crystalline shell structure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

La partie libre [de la plaque d'une coquille de Chiton] est formée de deux couches (...). [L'] interne [s'appelle] "articulamentum" (...)

Spanish

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