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CALCAIRE COQUILLE [14 records]

Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

An aquatic [mollusc] which has a compressed body enclosed within a hinged shell.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Mollusque aquatique au corps protégé par une coquille calcaire formée de deux valves réunies par un ligament, qui vit généralement fixé à un support ou enfoui dans le sable [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
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Record 2 2022-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
  • Birds
  • Poultry Production
CONT

Grit is available in two forms: soluble and insoluble. Soluble grit, such a cuttlebone and crushed oyster shells, dissolves as it passes through the digestive tract and serves as a source of calcium in the avian diet ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)
  • Oiseaux
  • Élevage des volailles
CONT

[...] le grit soluble est ajouté au régime alimentaire de tous les types de volailles sous la forme de calcaire ou de coquille d’huîtres. Les autres [coquilles] de mer peuvent également être utilisées dans le grit.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

A large phylum of invertebrate animals that have a soft unsegmented body lacking segmented appendages and commonly protected by a calcareous shell secreted by a mantle which extends from the body wall usually as an enveloping fold ...

OBS

Mollusca include tooth shells, snails, mussels and other bivalves, octopuses, and related forms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Embranchement d’animaux invertébrés à corps mou composé d’une tête, d’une masse viscérale et d’un pied, le tout recouvert d’une membrane, le manteau, dont le rôle principal est de sécréter une coquille calcaire.

OBS

Le calmar, le poulpe, l’escargot, la moule, l’huître et les autres coquillages sont des mollusques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
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Record 4 2004-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

... class [of Crustaceans] with a shelly covering of many plates around them, [growing] attached to rocks, shells of other invertebrates, or other foothold on the shallow sea bottom ...

OBS

The names ciri, curl; ped, foot refer to the many curved delicate appendages which are borne by the body segments, used to convey food to the mouth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
DEF

[...] Crustacé aberrant [...] chez lequel le stade larvaire à carapace bivalve [...] se fixe par la tête au moyen d’un pédoncule musculeux, et se protège en sécrétant une coquille calcaire épaisse [...], presque tous [sont] hermaphrodites [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Paleontología
DEF

Componente de la subclase Cirropoda de crustáceos aberrantes, provistos de un caparazón formado por varias piezas y un pedúnculo que queda reducido a una base de fijación.

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Record 5 2000-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

The horny or shelly plate that develops on the posterior dorsal surface of the foot in many gastropod mollusks (as in Streptoneura) and serves to close the shell when the animal is retracted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Pièce, calcaire ou cornée, sécrétée par le pied des mollusques gastéropodes et qui ferme l'ouverture de la coquille.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
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Record 6 1997-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

... consists of foreign particles bound together with cement. The foreign particles may consist of quartz sand, calcareous grains, mica flakes, sponge spicules, and tests of other Foraminifera.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

On distingue parmi les Foraminifères des formes dont la couche externe du test(c'est-à-dire la coquille) est recouverte de particules sableuses plus ou moins fines agglutinées, soit reposant sur une support calcaire, soit indépendantes. Les Foraminifères à test arénacé comprennent quelques très grandes formes [...]

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
OBS

Pteropods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Mollusque gastropode opisthobranches, répandu dans toutes les mers chaudes et tempérées, et caractérisé par l'absence de lobe operculigère, par de larges nageoires lobées et par la minceur de sa coquille calcaire.

CONT

Cavoline gibleuse (cavolina giblosa).

Spanish

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Record 8 1987-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Mollusque gastropode de mers chaudes, à coquille allongé, très abondant dans les roches tertiaires(calcaire grossier).

Spanish

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Record 9 1977-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Bivalves of the family Cuspidariidae are] small to medium-sized, thin, ovate, mostly strongly rostrate; [they have a] hinge with [an] external ligament; [a] resilium on [a] small resilifer; hinge teeth [are] present or absent. (...) "U. Cret. - Rec.".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Lamellibranches de la famille des Cuspidaridae ont une] coquille légèrement inéquivalve, rostrée, lisse ou ornée, non nacrée; [une] charnière avec ou sans dents; [un] cuilleron ligamentaire et un osselet calcaire(lithodesme) sur chaque valve.

Spanish

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Record 10 1977-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Bivalves of the] family Anomiidae [have shells that are] irregular in outline, mostly sessile, slightly to markedly inequivalve. [A] byssus [is] present in young stages, later modified in most to become pluglike, horny, passing through [an] embayment or foramen in [the] lower valve (normally RV). [The] adductor muscle scar [is] subcentral, with one or more pedal and byssal retractor muscle scars above it, best seen on LV, opposite to foramen. "?Perm., Cret.-Rec.".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Lamellibranches de la] famille des Anomiidae [ont une] coquille généralement mince, irrégulière, libre ou fixée par un byssus calcaire passant par un échancrure de la valve droite, échancrure à bords plus ou moins rapprochés, soudés ou oblitérés par un dépôt calcaire; [ils ont une] charnière sans dents, [un] ligament interne; une impression musculaire subcentrale.

Spanish

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Record 11 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 12 1977-06-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Inarticulate brachiopods of the] Superfamily Craniacea (...) [have] Shells [which are] strongly punctate, calcareous (...); some [are] free, many [are] attached by cementation of all or part of [the] pedicle valve to some other object, no forms [are] known to have possessed [a] pedicle; [the] growth is usually holoperipheral in both valves, more rarely mixoperipheral. ?M. Cam., L. Ord - Rec.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Brachiopodes inarticulés appartenant à la] Super-famille des Craniacea(...) [ont une] Coquille calcaire; [ils sont] sans pédoncule, ni ouverture pédonculaire à l'état adulte. [La] Fixation directe par la valve ventrale [est] fréquente(...) Ordovicien-Actuel.

Spanish

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Record 13 1977-06-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[The] Superfamily Trimerellacea [includes] large [inarticulate brachiopods] with thick calcareous shells, biconvex, inequivalved, elongate oval to transversely oval in outline, [the] shell smooth except for growth lines; [the] beak of [the] pedicle valve [is] prominent, [the] pseudointerarea [is] well developed, generally apsacline, divided into two propareas by [a] triangular homeodeltidium. Internally, [the] ventral umbo may be solid or divided into two umbonal chambers by [a] cardinal buttress; muscle platforms [are] present in both valves, solid or excavated, when excavated, [the] cavity [is] divided into two vaults by [a] median partition that may extend anterior to [the] platform. M.Ord.-U.Sil.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[La] Super-famille des Trimerellacea [est un groupe de Brachiopodes inarticulés ayant une] Coquille calcaire; [une] grande taille; [et des] empreintes musculaires sur une plate-forme surélevée.

Spanish

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Record 14 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Tests (Construction)
  • Geology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Essais du sol (Construction)
  • Géologie

Spanish

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