buchiid

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English

Etymology

Back-formation from Buchiidae, from the genus name Buchia.

Noun

buchiid (plural buchiids)

  1. (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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