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rhynchonellid Zool. and Palæont.|rɪŋkəʊˈnɛlɪd|
[ad. mod.L. family name Rhynchonellidæ, f. generic name Rhynchonella (G. Fischer von Waldheim 1809, in Notice des Fossiles du Gouvernement de Moscou 35), f. rhynchon- (irreg. f. Gr. ῥύγχος snout) + -ella, dim. suffix (see -el2): see -id3.]
An articulate brachiopod of the family Rhynchonellidæ, whose members are found as both fossils and living animals.
1913C. R. Eastman tr. Zittel's Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 2) I. v. 399 Few Rhynchonellids agree with the genotype, which is Rhynchonella loxia Fischer..from the Upper Jura of Russia. 1920A. M. Davies Introd. Palæont. i. 37 Young specimens of this group are the best on which to study the deltidial plates.., which in so many rhynchonellids become obscured by the curvature of the beaks. 1936Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXVII. 431 Other fossils include cephalopods, gastropods, rhynchonellids and crinoid stems. 1970R. M. Black Elements Palaeont. xi. 158 A number of different stocks of brachiopods survived into the Mesozoic... The most commonly occurring forms..are rhynchonellids and terebratulids. The rhynchonellids are in general less important after the Jurassic. |