Polycoa; those creatures which fabricate the lamp-shells, and are called Brachiopoda; the pearly Nautilus, and all animals allied to it; and all the forms of sea-urchins and star-fishes. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference
Finding that I wished to devote myself to geology, he set me to work on the Brachiopoda as the best group of fossils to serve as data in determining the Palaeozoic horizons. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction] Reference
Of the phyla you haven't seen alive, I have seen: Chaetognatha, Nematomorpha, Nemertea, Sipuncula, Echiura which is really a subgroup of Annelida, Phoronida and Brachiopoda. From Wordnik.com. [So many phyla so little time] Reference
Kowalevsky, in 1871, showed that the body-cavity of Sagitta was formed by a division of the archenteron into three parallel cavities, and in 1874 demonstrated the same fact for the Brachiopoda. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Brachiopoda ( 'Spirifer, Orthis'), elegant Sphaeronites, nearly allied to the. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
I must have the pleasure of thanking you for your kindness in sending me your essay on the Brachiopoda. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Brachiopoda; the pearly Nautilus, and all animals allied to it; and all the forms of sea-urchins and star-fishes. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference
"Contributions to the Anatomy of the Brachiopoda" "Proceedings of the Royal Society" 7 (1854-55) 106-117; 241, 242. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley]
All that will be conceded is that specific variation in the Brachiopoda, at least, has a wider range than was formerly suspected. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Only consider, for example, the genera of Rubus and Salix among the living plants of the present period, and the Ammonites and Brachiopoda among extinct animals. From Wordnik.com. [Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English] Reference
Brachiopoda, which are persistent in type, so that the thread of our inquiry is less likely to be interrupted by breaks in the sequence of the fossiliferous rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Such are the corals; those corallines which are called Polycoa; those creatures which fabricate the lamp-shells, and are called Brachiopoda; the pearly Nautilus, and all animals allied to it; and all the forms of sea-urchins and star-fishes. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference
Brachiopoda have gone through in shorter periods a vast series of transformations, so that distinct specific and even generic names have been given to the same varying form, according to the different aspects and characters it has put on in successive sets of strata. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Mr. Davidson, accordingly, after studying not less than 260 reputed species from the British Carboniferous rocks, has been obliged to reduce that number to 100, to which he has added 20 species either entirely new or new to the British strata; but he declares his conviction that, when our knowledge of these 120 Brachiopoda is more complete, a further reduction of species will take place. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
"Contributions to the Anatomy of the Brachiopoda" "Proceedings of the. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
Davidson's Monograph on the Brachiopoda. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Sagitta and Brachiopoda; and the epicoel. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Brachiopoda: 6. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
"The Brachiopoda, a Division of. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Loricifera, Pogonophora, Brachiopoda, Placozoa and so on. From Wordnik.com. [SNAIL'S TALES] Reference
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