How to use in-sentence of “brachiopods”:
– So, it was thought that bivalves are better adapted to aquatic life than the brachiopods, and this caused brachiopods to be out-competed and relegated to minor niches.
– Some brachiopods do not have an anus.
– The shells of brachiopods and bivalves are held together by strong muscles.
– The great majority of modern brachiopods are rhynchonelliforms.
– Bivalve molluscs took over their inshore habitats in the Mesozoic, and since then the brachiopods have been confined to deeper water, except for a handful of species.
– The Lingulata brachiopods have existed from the Cambrian period to the present, a time span of over 500 million years! Modern species of “Lingula” are very similar from their fossil ancestors.
