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DISSEPIMENTARIUM [5 records]

Record 1 2002-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

The peripheral part of the interior of a corallite, characterized by generally abundant dissepiments or by a dense deposit of skeletal tissue producing a stereozone.

CONT

The genus is characterized by having a sharp separation between a narrow marginarium of dilated dissepiments and a broad pronounced tabularium, and by septa confined to the dissepimentarium.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

Part of thecarium occupied by dissepiments. [Invertebrate Fossils, p. 121.]

CONT

[The] dissepimentarium [is the] peripheral zone of [a] corallite interior occupied by dissepiments...

OBS

Plural: dissepimentaria.

Key term(s)
  • dissepimentaria

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

[...] les dissépiments forment un manchon périphérique [appelé] dissépimentarium [...] dans le thécarium [des Anthozoaires].

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[It is composed] of more or less flat plates extending across the whole corallite or confined to the axial part.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Un dissépimentarium, constitué de petits éléments subhorizontaux est qualifié de "celluleux" (...)

Spanish

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Record 4 1977-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[It is formed of] small, curved overlapping plates inclined downward and inward from the corallite boundary or wall (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Un dissépimentarium] formé de traverses arquées est dit: vésiculeux.

Spanish

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Record 5 1977-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A] herringbone dissepimentarium [is a] type in which [the] dissepiments between major septa [are] inosculate, [and between] minor septa [are] failing(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Dans les formes [de polypiers] à septa mineurs dégénérés en simples crêtes, discontinues verticalement [les dissépiments] perdent leur individualité en coupe transversale et s'anastomosent en imbrications angulaires alternantes ("herringbone pattern" des auteurs anglais).

Spanish

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