lamellipore
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editlamellipore (plural lamellipores)
- (paleontology) A thin, sheet-like extension that forms part of the skeletal walls of some bryozoan colonies.
- 1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 225:
- Epispires, cothumopores, and lamellipores in cornutes are respiratory structures not atypical of early echinoderms and are only superficially similar to chordate gill slits.