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chasmataspidids

chasmataspidids is the plural of chasmataspidid.

Meaning of chasmataspidid

Noun

chasmataspidid (plural chasmataspidids)

  1. Any of the Chasmataspidida, an extinct group of chelicerate arthropods.
    • The sixth prosomal appendage is modified in both xiphosurids and chasmataspidids for use in locomotion or burrowing.2015 September 1, James C. Lamsdell et al., “The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa”, in BMC Evolutionary...

Questions about chasmataspidids

What is chasmataspidids the plural of?
Chasmataspidids is the plural of chasmataspidid.

Words near chasmataspidids in the dictionary

  1. chasmal
  2. chasmanine
  3. chasmas
  4. chasmata
  5. chasmataspidid
  6. chasmataspidids
  7. chasmatical
  8. chasmed
  9. chasmic
  10. chasmically
  11. chasmlike

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