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PATELLIFORM [3 records]

Record 1 1978-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Botany
OBS

Shaped like a small dish, circular and rimmed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Botanique
OBS

En forme d'assiette.

Spanish

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Record 2 1977-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Gastropods of the] superfamily Neritacea [have a] shell [that is] commonly coiled and ovoid or globular, more rarely capuliform or patelliform; whorls [are] few; [the] spire, if protruding at all, [is] relatively low; [the] outer shell layers [are] calcitic, unusually stable in fossils, commonly preserving [the] color pattern; [the] inner layers [are] thick, aragonitic, lamellar but not nacreous; [the] operculum, not developed in a few genera, [is] commonly calcareous, in many post-Paleozoic genera with processes projecting from [the] inner face and gripping [the] inner lip; living forms [have a] left kidney only; [a] single, bipectinate ctenidium [is] present on [the] left except in terrestrial forms, attached at its base only; [a] single hypobranchial gland, thought to be [a] homologue of [the] right one of other Archeogastropoda, [is] also present; [there is a] heart with 2 auricles, [the] right one in some [is] reduced or with [a] single auricle; pallial genital organs [are] developed and complex, fertilization [is] internal; retractor muscles [are] paired; [the] radula [is] rhipidoglossate, with [the] outermost admedians large, capituliform. "M. Dev.-Rec. ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les gastéropodes de la] super-famille des Neritacea [ont une] coquille globuleuse à spire courte et [à] tours fortement jointifs. [La] couche interne [est] porcelanée. [Ils n'ont] pas d'ombilic. [Ils ont un] opercule calcaire.

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Gastropods of the] family Neritidae [have the following characteristics; the] shell [is] globose, turbiniform, capuliform or patelliform; mostly thick-walled; [they have] no umbilicus; [the] inner walls of [the] whorls [are] resorbed; [the] inner lip [is] more or less thickened by [a] callus or protruding as [a] septum that narrows [the] aperture, commonly with [a] dentate margin(...). "Trias.-Rec. ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les gastéropodes de la] famille des Neritidae [ont le] bord columellaire très épaissi en un cal qui, réunissant le bord columellaire au bord pariétal, prend le nom de septum. [Ils ont un] opercule muni d'apophyses lui permettant de s'articuler sur la coquille (...). [Les] tours internes [sont] non résorbés.

Spanish

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