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The valve-shelled organisms also evolved, and these brachiopods lived in those ancient waters much as they exist today; they even had hinged, notched, and other sorts of protective arrangements of their valves.
Les organismes à coquille et à valve évoluèrent également, et ces brachiopodes vécurent dans ces mers anciennes à peu près sous la même forme qu'aujourd'hui ; leur valve était même munie de charnières, de dentelures et d'autres sortes de dispositifs protecteurs.
The valve-shelled organisms also evolved, and these brachiopods lived in those ancient waters much as they exist today; they even had hinged, notched, and other sorts of protective arrangements of their valves.
Les organismes à coquille et à valve évoluèrent également, et ces brachiopodes vécurent dans ces mers anciennes à peu près sous la même forme qu’aujourd’hui ; leur valve était même munie de charnières, de dentelures et d’autres sortes de dispositifs protecteurs.
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