The name of the fossil rises from some corner of his brain: brachiopod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memory Wall] Reference

My aunt came to Canada for a visit, and she picked up a Middle Ordovician brachiopod fossil off the trail and showed it to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

I can handle leaving vertebrates alone, archeological sites, etc. but when I find a nice brachiopod weathering out of the Percha Shale, the last thing I want is some federal employee telling me I must leave it there to be destroyed instead of adding it to my collection where I and my descendants could possibly appreciate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope for the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act!] Reference

The brachiopod which the shell represents grew for a number of years, but eventually died.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

We may instance Rubus, Rosa, and Hieracium amongst plants, several genera of and of brachiopod shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Variation under Nature. Individual Differences] Reference

The process is apparently the same in a nebula or a brachiopod, although much more intricate in the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of the Far East] Reference

Both were trying to eek out a living on the brachiopod shell, and neither was giving up a millimeter of space.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

Like the growth of the brachiopod itself, it occurred at a rate that would have been nearly imperceptible to us, but it was a dire struggle nonetheless.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

The two valves of the brachiopod shell are unequal in size, and in each valve a line drawn from the beak to the base divides the valve into two equal parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

Top of the encrusted surface of a brachiopod shell, showing the "war" between an edrioasteroid (star-shaped organism at center) and a fast-growing bryozoan colony.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

Genera which are polymorphic in one country seem to be, with a few exceptions, polymorphic in other countries, and likewise, judging from brachiopod shells, at former periods of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Variation under Nature. Individual Differences] Reference

As Richards showed Gianniny where he found the object, this reporter found a fossil of a brachiopod, a clam-like creature, which was fossilized when the area was just north of the equator 302 million years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durangoherald.com] Reference

Unique build-ups of fossil shells, both wave-generated accumulations of dead shells and massive brachiopod-dominated reefs, produced by the complex interactive growth of millions of marine invertebrates that occur in the Glass Mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

A mollusc of the cretaceous period, a brachiopod of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

I’m a lot more familiar with marine fossils mollusk, brachiopod, shells, coral and bryozoan colonies, echinoderm fossils, etc. and there is a wide variation in how easy it is to remove the fossils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fossilized Ripples - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

And the brachiopod Paterina pospectensis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

The brachiopod Paternia pospectensis below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fieldwork Friday #4] Reference

Encrusted on the lower shell of the brachiopod.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

BLM, brachiopod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fieldwork Friday #4] Reference