atrypacean

English

Noun

atrypacean (plural atrypaceans)

1. Any brachiopod of the superfamily Atrypacea.
   • 2013, Rituparna Bose, Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods: A Case Study:

     This size difference applies to many of the Silurian-Devonian families including the spiriferids, chonetids, atrypoids, atrypaceans, and some pentameroids (mostly among the gyidulids) (Boucot et al. 2012).