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nountype genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill
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- shell the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- coral marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs
- cuttlefish ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
- dentine a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth
- dentin a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth
- cuttle ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
- foram marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude
- sea cradle primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
- gorgonian coral corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton
- belemnite a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae