buchiid
English
Etymology
Back-formation from Buchiidae, from the genus name Buchia.
Noun
buchiid (plural buchiids)
- (malacology, paleontology) A bivalve mollusc of the extinct family †Buchiidae.
- 1997, Rolf Ludvigsen, Life in Stone: A Natural History of British Columbia's Fossils, →ISBN, page 177:
- The buchiids were certainly the most abundant bivalve group in the oceans of British Columbia during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.
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Hypernyms
- pectinoid
- pteriomorph
- bivalve
- mollusc
- bivalve
- pteriomorph