Operculum (gastropod) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The operculum , meaning little lid, (plural: opercula or operculums) is a corneous or calcareous structure which exists in many (but not all) groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in ...
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The operculum (the shell door) is a corneous plate (except in the genus Pila, where the operculum is calcified at the inside during the life of the snail), with a concentric structure and a nucleus near the parietal margin (close to the umbilicus).
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has yielded a shell of Ceratopea ung4is with the operculum in life position. ... Arkansas; A. Top view of shell and operculum, hypotype, USNM 177177, ...
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ABSTRACT-The only two known life associations of the shell and operculum of Maclurites Le Sueur, 1818, are described for the first ...
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Only one life association of the shell and operculum has been ... The base of the operculum and shell of that specimen are not ...
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The only two known life associations of the shell and operculum of Maclurites Le Sueur, 1818, are described for the first time. ... LIFE ASSOCIATION OF SHELL AND OPERCULUM OF CERATOPEA ULRICH, 1911 (ORDOVICIAN; GASTROPODA); Journal of Paleontology, January 1, 2004; 78(1): 218 - 220.
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Access to this underused prey appears to be made possible by morphological speializations of the neurocanium that allow Asemichthys to puncture the shells of its prey during mastication. Unpunched, the shell and operculum act as a barrier to digestion;
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