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Article: Shell structure of the billingsellacean brachiopods

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 11
Part: 3
Publication Date: July 1968
Page(s): 486 490
Author(s): Alwyn Williams
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WILLIAMS, A. 1968. Shell structure of the billingsellacean brachiopods. Palaeontology11, 3, 486–490.

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Abstract

Sections of Cambrian articulate brachiopods from the U.S.S.R. show that the calcareous shell of the billingsellacean Nisusiidae probably consisted of normally developed primary and secondary layers with orthodoxly stacked fibres. Disposition of the recrystallized fibres further suggests that whereas Nisusia was impunctate, the related Kotujella was permeated by simple canals which must have been indistinguishable from the caeca accommodated within endopunctae of younger, unrelated articulate brachiopods.
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