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Record 1 1977-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Gastropods of the] superfamily Euomphalacea (...) [have shells that are] mostly discoidal; orthostrophic or hyperstrophic; commonly with [a] channel presumed to be exhalant occupying angulation on [the] outer part of [the] upper whorl surface; mostly widely phaneromphalous; [the] shell wall [is] relatively thick, with [an] external prismatic layer of calcite which may be pigmented and [an] internal layer of aragonite, which is lamellar but not nacreous. "L.Ord.-U.Cret."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Gastéropodes de la] super-famille des Euomphalacea [ont une] coquille enroulée en spire plane légèrement dissymétrique, indiquant un système nerveux streptoneure. [Les] stries d'accroissement (...) [ont] subi une évolution très nette depuis un type pourvu de deux sinus, (...) jusqu'à un type oblique NW-SE (...)

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