telotremata

from The Century Dictionary.

• In Beecher's classification, an order of articulate brachiopods in which the pedicle-opening is shared by both valves in nepionic and neanic stages, confined to the ventral valve in later stages, and usually more or less inclosed by deltidial plates in ephebic (adult) stages. The order contains the superfa milies Rhynchonellacea, Terebratulacea, and Spiriferacea, the genera of which are distributed throughout all formations from the Cambrian to recent age. Also Teleotremata.