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CRINOIDS [16 records]
Record 1 - internal organization data 2020-05-04
Record 1, English
Record 1, Subject field(s)
- Ecosystems
- Oceanography
Record 1, Main entry term, English
- benthic ecosystem
1, record 1, English, benthic%20ecosystem
correct
Record 1, Abbreviations, English
Record 1, Synonyms, English
Record 1, Textual support, English
Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT
Trawling fishes and shrimps and dredging for shellfish modify benthic ecosystems through removal of or damage to seaweeds and sessile invertebrates such as sponges, sea anemones, urochordates, crinoids, and tube worms … 2, record 1, English, - benthic%20ecosystem
Record 1, French
Record 1, Domaine(s)
- Écosystèmes
- Océanographie
Record 1, Main entry term, French
- écosystème benthique
1, record 1, French, %C3%A9cosyst%C3%A8me%20benthique
correct, masculine noun
Record 1, Abbreviations, French
Record 1, Synonyms, French
Record 1, Textual support, French
Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT
Les chalutiers à poissons et à crevettes et les dragueurs à mollusques dégradent les écosystèmes benthiques en éliminant ou en endommageant les algues marines et les organismes sessiles comme les éponges, les anémones, les urochordés, les crinoïdes et les vers polychètes […] 2, record 1, French, - %C3%A9cosyst%C3%A8me%20benthique
Record 1, Spanish
Record 1, Textual support, Spanish
Record 2 - internal organization data 2015-04-13
Record 2, English
Record 2, Subject field(s)
- Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
- Paleontology
Record 2, Main entry term, English
- ambulacral groove
1, record 2, English, ambulacral%20groove
correct
Record 2, Abbreviations, English
Record 2, Synonyms, English
- food groove 2, record 2, English, food%20groove
correct
Record 2, Textual support, English
Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF
Broad, open depression on underside [of asteroid], leading from mouth to tip of each arm. 3, record 2, English, - ambulacral%20groove
Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 DEF
One of the five grooves arranged as a star, found in starfish, echinoids, crinoids, and related animals, and which leads to the mouth, serving as a passage way down for food. 4, record 2, English, - ambulacral%20groove
Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT
Beating cilia [of Crinoids] convey the food down the ambulacral grooves on the arms. The ambulacral(food) grooves continue on to the calyx and finally converge on the mouth where the food enters the digestive tract. 5, record 2, English, - ambulacral%20groove
Record 2, French
Record 2, Domaine(s)
- Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
- Paléontologie
Record 2, Main entry term, French
- sillon ambulacraire
1, record 2, French, sillon%20ambulacraire
correct, masculine noun
Record 2, Abbreviations, French
Record 2, Synonyms, French
- rainure ambulacraire 2, record 2, French, rainure%20ambulacraire
correct, feminine noun
- rainure nutritive 2, record 2, French, rainure%20nutritive
correct, feminine noun
Record 2, Textual support, French
Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF
[...] un «V» [...] formé par les plaques ambulacraires [...] qui s'effondrent [...], sur une coupe transversale d'un bras [d'Astéride]. 3, record 2, French, - sillon%20ambulacraire
Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT
On retrouve sur la face orale [...] : la bouche centrale et les cinq sillons ambulacraires localisés au centre de chaque bras et s'étendant de l'extrémité de chaque bras vers la bouche. Chaque sillon ambulacraire contient 4 rangées de pieds ambulacraires (ou podions) [...] 4, record 2, French, - sillon%20ambulacraire
Record 2, Spanish
Record 2, Textual support, Spanish
Record 3 - internal organization data 2002-09-18
Record 3, English
Record 3, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 3, Main entry term, English
- centrale
1, record 3, English, centrale
correct
Record 3, Abbreviations, English
Record 3, Synonyms, English
Record 3, Textual support, English
Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF
A noncirriferous thecal plate typically occurring inside the infrabasal circlet of some articulate crinoids... 1, record 3, English, - centrale
Record 3, French
Record 3, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 3, Main entry term, French
- plaque centrale
1, record 3, French, plaque%20centrale
correct, feminine noun
Record 3, Abbreviations, French
Record 3, Synonyms, French
Record 3, Textual support, French
Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 OBS
Si la tige vient à disparaître [chez les Crinoïdes], il peut apparaître au bord inférieur, entre les infrabasales, une plaque supplémentaire dite «centrale». 1, record 3, French, - plaque%20centrale
Record 3, Spanish
Record 3, Textual support, Spanish
Record 4 - internal organization data 2002-04-22
Record 4, English
Record 4, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 4, Main entry term, English
- Pentacrinus
1, record 4, English, Pentacrinus
correct
Record 4, Abbreviations, English
Record 4, Synonyms, English
Record 4, Textual support, English
Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 DEF
A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere. 1, record 4, English, - Pentacrinus
Record 4, French
Record 4, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 4, Main entry term, French
- pentacrine
1, record 4, French, pentacrine
correct, masculine noun
Record 4, Abbreviations, French
Record 4, Synonyms, French
Record 4, Textual support, French
Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 DEF
Échinoderme crinoïde, type de la famille des pentacrinidés, propre aux profondeurs marines, et fossile du Trias au Tertiaire. 1, record 4, French, - pentacrine
Record 4, Spanish
Record 4, Textual support, Spanish
Record 5 - internal organization data 2002-03-26
Record 5, English
Record 5, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 5, Main entry term, English
- lobolith
1, record 5, English, lobolith
correct
Record 5, Abbreviations, English
Record 5, Synonyms, English
Record 5, Textual support, English
Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT
Lobolith(floating organ of crinoids), partly filled with bitumens. 1, record 5, English, - lobolith
Record 5, French
Record 5, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 5, Main entry term, French
- lobolithe
1, record 5, French, lobolithe
correct, masculine noun
Record 5, Abbreviations, French
Record 5, Synonyms, French
Record 5, Textual support, French
Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT
La tige du [Crinoïde «Scyphocrinites»] [...] se fixait à son extrémité distale sur une sphère creuse, appelée «lobolithe» [...] 1, record 5, French, - lobolithe
Record 5, Spanish
Record 5, Textual support, Spanish
Record 6 - internal organization data 2001-10-30
Record 6, English
Record 6, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 6, Main entry term, English
- ramule
1, record 6, English, ramule
correct
Record 6, Abbreviations, English
Record 6, Synonyms, English
Record 6, Textual support, English
Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS
[A ramule is] a bifurcating or nonbifurcating minor branch of a crinoid arm, differing from a pinnule in less regular occurrence and in some crinoids by the presence of pinnules on it. 1, record 6, English, - ramule
Record 6, French
Record 6, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 6, Main entry term, French
- ramule
1, record 6, French, ramule
correct, masculine noun
Record 6, Abbreviations, French
Record 6, Synonyms, French
Record 6, Textual support, French
Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 CONT
Les tétrasporocystes cruciés ou plus ou moins irrégulièrement divisés se trouvent dans les derniers ramules spatulés, aplatis. 2, record 6, French, - ramule
Record number: 6, Textual support number: 2 CONT
Ainsi tendent à se différencier des branches [...] plus petites («ramuli») [...] 1, record 6, French, - ramule
Record 6, Spanish
Record 6, Textual support, Spanish
Record 7 - internal organization data 1999-10-15
Record 7, English
Record 7, Subject field(s)
- Petrography
- Paleontology
Record 7, Main entry term, English
- crinoidal limestone
1, record 7, English, crinoidal%20limestone
correct
Record 7, Abbreviations, English
Record 7, Synonyms, English
- encrinite 1, record 7, English, encrinite
correct
- encrinal limestone 2, record 7, English, encrinal%20limestone
correct
Record 7, Textual support, English
Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 DEF
A limestone consisting almost entirely of the fossil skeletal parts of crinoids in which the plates, ossicles, or joints are often cemented with clear calcite in crystallographic continuity with the crinoid fragment. 2, record 7, English, - crinoidal%20limestone
Record 7, Key term(s)
- encrinitic limestone
- encrinic limestone
- encrinital limestone
- encrinitical limestone
Record 7, French
Record 7, Domaine(s)
- Pétrographie
- Paléontologie
Record 7, Main entry term, French
- calcaire à entroques
1, record 7, French, calcaire%20%C3%A0%20entroques
correct, masculine noun
Record 7, Abbreviations, French
Record 7, Synonyms, French
- calcaire à crinoïdes 2, record 7, French, calcaire%20%C3%A0%20crino%C3%AFdes
correct, masculine noun
- encrinite 3, record 7, French, encrinite
correct, feminine noun
- calcaire à encrines 3, record 7, French, calcaire%20%C3%A0%20encrines
correct, masculine noun
Record 7, Textual support, French
Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 CONT
Les calcaires à entroques sont formés par l'accumulation de débris de Crinoïdes ou d'Échinides. Chaque entroque est formée d'un cristal de calcite décelable à la loupe. 4, record 7, French, - calcaire%20%C3%A0%20entroques
Record 7, Spanish
Record 7, Campo(s) temático(s)
- Petrografía
- Paleontología
Record 7, Main entry term, Spanish
- caliza de crinoides
1, record 7, Spanish, caliza%20de%20crinoides
feminine noun
Record 7, Abbreviations, Spanish
Record 7, Synonyms, Spanish
Record 7, Textual support, Spanish
Record 8 - internal organization data 1978-08-20
Record 8, English
Record 8, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 8, Main entry term, English
- Taxocrinus
1, record 8, English, Taxocrinus
correct
Record 8, Abbreviations, English
Record 8, Synonyms, English
Record 8, Textual support, English
Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 OBS
(...) Devonian-Mississippian [crinoids]. Distinguished by ray structure and characters of posterior interray. 1, record 8, English, - Taxocrinus
Record 8, French
Record 8, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 8, Main entry term, French
- taxocrinus
1, record 8, French, taxocrinus
correct
Record 8, Abbreviations, French
Record 8, Synonyms, French
Record 8, Textual support, French
Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 OBS
Échinoderme crinoïde, fossile dans les terrains paleozoïques de l'hémisphère boréal. 1, record 8, French, - taxocrinus
Record 8, Spanish
Record 8, Textual support, Spanish
Record 9 - internal organization data 1977-09-21
Record 9, English
Record 9, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 9, Main entry term, English
- centrodorsal
1, record 9, English, centrodorsal
correct, noun
Record 9, Abbreviations, English
Record 9, Synonyms, English
Record 9, Textual support, English
Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS
[A centrodorsal is] A commonly cirriferous crinoid columnal, or semifused to fused columnals attached to [the] theca of some articulate crinoids. 1, record 9, English, - centrodorsal
Record 9, French
Record 9, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 9, Main entry term, French
- centrodorsale
1, record 9, French, centrodorsale
correct, feminine noun
Record 9, Abbreviations, French
Record 9, Synonyms, French
Record 9, Textual support, French
Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS
La proximale [...] des [Crinoïdes] Comatulides [...] se fusionne à la capsule dorsale et se couvre de cirrhes pour devenir une pièce squelettique très spécialisée, la "centrodorsale". 1, record 9, French, - centrodorsale
Record 9, Spanish
Record 9, Textual support, Spanish
Record 10 - internal organization data 1977-09-20
Record 10, English
Record 10, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 10, Main entry term, English
- radianal plate 1, record 10, English, radianal%20plate
Record 10, Abbreviations, English
Record 10, Synonyms, English
- radianal 2, record 10, English, radianal
correct
Record 10, Textual support, English
Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 OBS
[A radianal plate is a] proximal plate of [the] right posterior ray in cladid, hybocrinid, and flexible crinoids, but shifted obliquely leftward in many; [it] supports [the] anal X at its left. 2, record 10, English, - radianal%20plate
Record 10, French
Record 10, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 10, Main entry term, French
- plaque radianale 1, record 10, French, plaque%20radianale
Record 10, Abbreviations, French
Record 10, Synonyms, French
- radianale 2, record 10, French, radianale
correct
Record 10, Textual support, French
Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 OBS
Les [plaques] anales des "Inadunata" et des "Flexibilia" sont ordinairement au nombre de deux: l'"anale X" et la "radianale". 2, record 10, French, - plaque%20radianale
Record 10, Spanish
Record 10, Textual support, Spanish
Record 11 - internal organization data 1977-09-20
Record 11, English
Record 11, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 11, Main entry term, English
- anal X
1, record 11, English, anal%20X
correct
Record 11, Abbreviations, English
Record 11, Synonyms, English
Record 11, Textual support, English
Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 OBS
[The anal X is a] plate between [the] posterior radials, obliquely at [the] left above [the] radianal in most inadunates and flexibles [(crinoids]) or obliquely at [the] left above [the] aniradial in disparids. 1, record 11, English, - anal%20X
Record 11, French
Record 11, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 11, Main entry term, French
- plaque anale X 1, record 11, French, plaque%20anale%20X
Record 11, Abbreviations, French
Record 11, Synonyms, French
- anale X 2, record 11, French, anale%20X
correct
Record 11, Textual support, French
Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 OBS
Les [plaques] anales des "Inadunata" et des "Flexibilia" sont ordinairement au nombre de deux: l'"anale X" et la "radianale". 2, record 11, French, - plaque%20anale%20X
Record 11, Spanish
Record 11, Textual support, Spanish
Record 12 - internal organization data 1977-09-20
Record 12, English
Record 12, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 12, Main entry term, English
- anal tube
1, record 12, English, anal%20tube
correct
Record 12, Abbreviations, English
Record 12, Synonyms, English
Record 12, Textual support, English
Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 OBS
[An anal tube is a] constricted pipelike elevation of [the] tegmen in camerate crinoids. [The] term is applied also to a fleshy conical tube of some modern crinoids; this tube is located on [the] tegmen and bears [the] anus. 1, record 12, English, - anal%20tube
Record 12, French
Record 12, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 12, Main entry term, French
- tube anal
1, record 12, French, tube%20anal
correct
Record 12, Abbreviations, French
Record 12, Synonyms, French
- proboscis 1, record 12, French, proboscis
correct
Record 12, Textual support, French
Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 OBS
L'anus, ordinairement, s'ouvre chez les Crinoïdes récents au sommet d'une saillie périsomique, nue ou renforcée de plaques, dressée sur le tegmen, dans l'interradius postérieur. Chez les Crinoïdes paléozoïques, cette saillie peut s'étirer en un "tube anal" ou "proboscis", parfois si long que la pointe en émerge au-dessus des bras. 1, record 12, French, - tube%20anal
Record 12, Spanish
Record 12, Textual support, Spanish
Record 13 - internal organization data 1977-09-19
Record 13, English
Record 13, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 13, Main entry term, English
- infrabasal plate 1, record 13, English, infrabasal%20plate
Record 13, Abbreviations, English
Record 13, Synonyms, English
- infrabasal 2, record 13, English, infrabasal
correct
Record 13, Textual support, English
Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS
[An infrabasal plate is a] plate of [the] lowest circlet in dicyclic crinoids(...) 2, record 13, English, - infrabasal%20plate
Record 13, French
Record 13, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 13, Main entry term, French
- plaque infrabasale 1, record 13, French, plaque%20infrabasale
Record 13, Abbreviations, French
Record 13, Synonyms, French
- infrabasale 2, record 13, French, infrabasale
correct
Record 13, Textual support, French
Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS
(...) le cercle des basales repose (...) sur un cercle d'"infrabasales" en position perradiale. 2, record 13, French, - plaque%20infrabasale
Record 13, Spanish
Record 13, Textual support, Spanish
Record 14 - internal organization data 1977-09-19
Record 14, English
Record 14, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 14, Main entry term, English
- pseudomonocyclic
1, record 14, English, pseudomonocyclic
correct
Record 14, Abbreviations, English
Record 14, Synonyms, English
Record 14, Textual support, English
Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 DEF
[The term pseudomonocyclic applies to] crinoids with infrabasals absent in adults but present in young or in near ancestors. 1, record 14, English, - pseudomonocyclic
Record 14, French
Record 14, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 14, Main entry term, French
- pseudo-monocyclique
1, record 14, French, pseudo%2Dmonocyclique
correct
Record 14, Abbreviations, French
Record 14, Synonyms, French
Record 14, Textual support, French
Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 CONT
[Les Crinoïdes sont] pseudo-monocycliques [si] les [plaques] infrabasales ont disparu (...) 1, record 14, French, - pseudo%2Dmonocyclique
Record 14, Spanish
Record 14, Textual support, Spanish
Record 15 - internal organization data 1977-07-04
Record 15, English
Record 15, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 15, Main entry term, English
- Platyceratidae
1, record 15, English, Platyceratidae
correct
Record 15, Abbreviations, English
Record 15, Synonyms, English
Record 15, Textual support, English
Record number: 15, Textual support number: 1 OBS
[Gastropods of the] family Platyceratidae [are] coprophagous on crinoids and cystoids(...), the shells showing through their range from mid-Ordovician to Iate Paleozoic progressively more complete adaptation to a stationary life, principally on crinoid calices; earlier members [are] turbiniform or naticiform, with [a] flat columellar lip but with irregular prosocline growth lines; [the] lip [becomes] more uneven, conforming to irregularities of the crinoid or cystoid calyx, and the primitively coiled shell [uncoiled or developed] other peculiarities of growth as [the] crinoids became more elaborate in the course of time; ornament present in more primitive stocks but gradually lost. "M. Ord.-M. Perm. " 1, record 15, English, - Platyceratidae
Record 15, French
Record 15, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 15, Main entry term, French
- Platyceratidae
1, record 15, French, Platyceratidae
correct
Record 15, Abbreviations, French
Record 15, Synonyms, French
Record 15, Textual support, French
Record number: 15, Textual support number: 1 OBS
[La] famille des Platyceratidae [est une] famille [de Mollusques] connue de l'Ordovicien au Permien. 1, record 15, French, - Platyceratidae
Record 15, Spanish
Record 15, Textual support, Spanish
Record 16 - internal organization data 1977-03-01
Record 16, English
Record 16, Subject field(s)
- Paleontology
Record 16, Main entry term, English
- stem
1, record 16, English, stem
correct
Record 16, Abbreviations, English
Record 16, Synonyms, English
Record 16, Textual support, English
Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 CONT
... most crinoids are attached to the sea bottom by a stem... 1, record 16, English, - stem
Record 16, French
Record 16, Domaine(s)
- Paléontologie
Record 16, Main entry term, French
- tige
1, record 16, French, tige
correct, feminine noun
Record 16, Abbreviations, French
Record 16, Synonyms, French
Record 16, Textual support, French
Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 CONT
[La tige est] composée d'articles égaux ou de taille variable, et alors alternant suivant un rythme régulier [chez un crinoïde] [...] La tige peut [...] porter des cirres [...] 1, record 16, French, - tige
Record 16, Spanish
Record 16, Textual support, Spanish
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