notothyrium
notothyrium A triangular opening in the posterior margin of the brachial valve of a brachiopod (Brachiopoda) shell, through which the pedicle may partly emerge. In some species it is open, in others it is closed by a single plate of shell material, the chilidium, or by two chilidial plates.
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