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Joania Alvarez, Brunton & Long 2008

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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last appearance

Paleobiology Database
calabrian age
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Calabrian

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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mineralized tissue contains

Mineralogy
calcite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_46719

Definition: Calcium carbonate (CO3Ca), calcite structure

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number of records in gbif

GBIF data coverage

430

parental care

Kaulfuss et al, 2013
brooding
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CEPH_0000036

Definition: Incubation of eggs by the parent.

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reproduction

Fairbairn 2013
sexual reproduction
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953

Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

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sexual system

Kaulfuss et al, 2013
dioecious
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681

Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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trophic guild

Brusca and Brusca, 2003
feeding current
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/feedingCurrent

Definition: An organism which obtains food by utilizing a feeding current.

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(adult)
Paleobiology Database
suspension feeder
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/suspensionFeeder

Definition: An organism which feeds on organisms and/or particles suspended in the water column.

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