buchiid

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^[1], ISBN 0774805781, page 177:

     The buchiids were certainly the most abundant bivalve group in the oceans of British Columbia during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.

Hypernyms

• pectinoid
  • pteriomorph
    • bivalve
      • mollusc