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FACE ORALE [3 records]

Record 1 2003-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

... the calcareous adoral part of a crinoid calyx roofing the dorsal cup, situated at the origin of the free arms and occupying the space between them.

OBS

It may include calcareous ambulacral and interambulacral plates or be composed entirely of soft tissue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
DEF

[...] face supérieure du disque central [d'un crinoïde], entièrement membraneuse et plane [et qui] porte, au centre, la bouche, [...] et l'anus au sommet d'un petit cône.

CONT

La face ventrale [des Crinoïdes] est recouverte d'une membrane plus ou moins incrustée de plaques calcaires, le tegmen, étoilé par les sillons ambulacraires et perforé par de nombreux hydropores. Au centre s'ouvre la bouche; non loin se place l'anus à l'extrémité d'un tube proéminent.

Spanish

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Record 2 1977-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[It is the] final septal face in fusulinaceans.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Chez un Fusulinoidé, la dernière cloison] formée constitue la "face orale" de l'animal ou antéthèque (...)

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

(...) the lower surface [of a starfish.]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

(...) face inférieure [d'un Stelléride]

Spanish

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