Sentence examples for carapace structure from inspiring English sources

He explains that Whittington's decision to study Burgess Shale fossils was a logical progression from trilobites, although while the shells contained details of the carapace structure, they lacked the preservation of soft anatomical parts.

The structure, an artistic creation of world-renowned sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, is reminiscent of a tortoise shell that conveys a sense of protection: the Carapace structure guards wine barriques in the same way that the tortoise carapace protects the animal.

The new species of Strobilopterus described from Cottonwood Canyon herein shows the characteristic ventral and appendicular morphology of Strobilopterus and the diagnostic dorsal carapace structure and ornamentation of Syntomopterella.

There have been few previous studies on eurypterid ontogeny, and these have tended to rely on the same few well-sampled species and focused on changes in the dorsal carapace structures or relative length/width ratios of the carapace and opisthosoma [ 7- 9].

Collectively, these modified bones may have served as a type of intermediate shell structure from which the carapace and plastron evolved in later forms.

No details of the dorsal carapace or visual structures are preserved.

The microstructure of a turtle shell's carapace elicits a sandwich structure of waxy top surface with a harder sub-surface layer serving as a shielding structure, followed by a lamellar carbonaceous layer serving as shock absorber, and the inner porous matrix serves as a load-bearing scaffold while acting as reservoir of retaining water and nutrients.

The top of the cephalothorax is covered by a protective structure, the carapace, while the underside is covered by a structure called the sternum, which has an anterior projection, the labium.

Based on these results, we propose that the sandwich-like structure of the carapace of the box turtle is designed to maintain sufficient resistance to penetration deformation, a defeating mechanism, and at the same time to significantly amplify energy dissipation, a defending mechanism.

We found that carapace temperatures were greater near structures (fence or unfenced road) than away from structures; tortoises near the unfenced road had higher mean carapace temperatures, but tortoises along the fence experienced more extreme upper temperatures that approached the species' thermal limit.

The carapace and plastron are bony structures that usually join one another along each side of the body, creating a rigid skeletal box.