Cabrini, Frances-Xavier, St
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Cabrini, Frances-Xavier, St (1850–1917). Founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, and first saint of the USA. She was born in Italy and had hoped to become a missionary in China, but she was rejected on grounds of health. Sent to New York by Pope Leo XIII, she began work among Italian immigrants in 1889, producing a network of support in practical form. She was known as Mother Cabrini, and she became the
patron saint of immigrants and displaced persons. She was canonized in 1946. Feast day, 13 Nov.
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Evaluating internal versus external characters: Phylogenetic analyses of the Echinoconchidae, Buxtoniinae, and Juresaniinae (Phylum Brachiopoda)
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Echinoconchidae, Productidae, Buxtoniinae, and Juresaniinae (Phylum Brachiopoda. Order Productida) have been the subject of debate for...Williams, 1965) and revised (Brunton et al., 2000) Brachiopoda volumes of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology use...
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMELICANIIDAE MERLA, 1930 (BRACHIOPODA: ATHYRIDIDA) FROM THE LOPINGIAN (LATE PERMIAN) OF SOUTH CHINA AND TRANSCAUCASIA IN AZERBAIJAN AND IRAN
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...xui n. sp., and R. spondomarginata n. sp. INTRODUCTION REPRESENTATIVES OF Athyridoidea Davidson, 1881 (Athyridida, Brachiopoda) are among the most abundant taxonomically diverse components of the Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopod faunas (Grunt...
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LINOLDHAMININAE, A NEW SUBFAMILY OF LYTTONIIDAE WAAGEN, 1883 (BRACHIOPODA) FROM THE GUADALUPIAN (MIDDLE PERMIAN) XIALA FORMATION IN THE XAINZA AREA, NORTHERN TIBET
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; MEMBERS OF the Lyttonudae Waagen, 1883 (Lyttonioidea Waagen, 1883, Brachiopoda) are characterized by numerous peculiarities, including their disproportionately inequivalve, rudimentary articulatory apparatus...
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Nahoniella, a new name for Yukonella Shi and Waterhouse, 1996 (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda)
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 9/1/1998; ; 439 words
; ...AND Waterhouse (1996, p. 127) proposed a new genus, Yukonella, for a distinctive licharewnid species (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda) based on well-preserved material from the Lower Permian upper Jungle Creek Formation, northern Yukon Territory, Canada...
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Quadriloba, new name for the genus Tetraloba Alvarez, Rong, and Boucot, 1998 (Brachiopoda, Athyridida); preoccupied by Tetraloba Lee, 1983 (Insecta, Collembola)
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 5/1/1999; ; 495 words
; ...informed us (personal commun., 16 November 1998) that the generic name Tetraloba Alvarez, Rong, and Boucot, 1998 (Brachiopoda: Athyridida) (Alvarez et al., 1998, p. 843) is preoccupied by an insect (Collembola) genus published by Lee, 1983...
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BRACHIOPODA FROM THE SOOM SHALE LAGERSTÄTTE (UPPER ORDOVICIAN, SOUTH AFRICA)
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT-Within the Soom Shale Lagersttte of South Africa (Upper Ordovician, Hirnantian), two brachiopod taxa preserve traces of organic tissue. In Trematis, presumed bands of periostracum are preserved on the flanks of the pedicle notch, and clay mineral casts of the pedicle are preserved in many
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SILICIFIED CARBONIFEROUS (CHESTERIAN) BRACHIOPODA OF THE ARCO HILLS FORMATION, IDAHO
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT- The Arco Hills Formation contains abundant lingulate, strophomenate, and rhynchonellate brachiopods, echinoderms, corals, bryozoans, and rare vertebrate and trilobite fossil fragments. Fossils are equally abundant in carbonate and siliciclastic units; however, silicified brachiopods are
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Peltichia Jin and Liao, 1981 (Enteletidae, Brachiopoda) from Asia: Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and palebiogeography
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT-An enteletid brachiopod genus Peltichia Jin and Liao, 1981, is reviewed and emended based on specimens from the Permian sequences of Japan, South China, Vietnam, and Transcaucasia. New and revised taxa are Peltichia akasakensis (Ozawa), P. kwangtungensis (Zhan), P. ruzhencevi (Sokolskaja),
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Geniculigypa, a new gypidulid (Brachiopoda) genus from the Middle Devonian of Michigan
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 5/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT-A new genus, Geniculigypa, and a new subfamily, the Geniculigypinae, are established. Both taxa are monotypic and have as their type species, Sieberella newtonensis Imbrie, 1959, from the Newton Creek Limestone (early Givetian) of Michigan. This species dramatically differs from all other
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A new species of Coenothyris (Brachiopoda) from the Triassic (Upper Anisian-Ladinian) of Israel
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT-Coenothyris oweni new species is described from the Lower Member (Upper Anisian-Ladinian) of the Triassic Saharonim Formation (Upper Anisian-Lower Carnian) at Har Gevanim, Makhtesh Ramon, southern Israel. The Saharonim Formation was deposited under normal, calm, shallow marine conditions
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Brachiopoda
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Brachiopoda , phylum of shelled sessile or sedentary marine animals, commonly known as lamp shells, and characterized by a peculiar feeding...
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Cambrian Explosion
Book article from: Biology
...Echinodermata (starfish, urchins, sea lilies), phylum Arthropoda (trilobites, crabs, lobsters, insects), and phylum Brachiopoda (lamp shells). Along with these familiar groups came more obscure animals such as the Archaeocyatha, which are an interesting...
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lamp shell
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
lamp shell common name for animals of the phylum Brachiopoda .
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Koninck, Laurent-Guillaume De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...the Gastropoda (1881, 1883), the Lamelli-branchia (1855, in collaboration with J. Fraipont), and finally the Brachiopoda (1887) — a total of 1,302 species described and illustrated, of which he judged 891 to be new. He changed...
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Munier-Chalmas, Ernest Charles Philippe Auguste
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...ones, and their collaboration was mutually profitable. His own paleontological work included his investigations of the Brachiopoda, Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Foraminifera, and Calcareous Algae. He was also concerned with classification and nomenclature...
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