"shield" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She used the buoyant cube as a head shield.
- The mouth is interesting because as the lower jaw moved down the head shield moved allowing for a large opening.
- If the latter is the case, then aptychi may have had a function similar to the head shield of modern nautiluses.
- In most species, there are two eyes at the front side of the head shield, often merged into a single eye lobe.
- The rest of body was covered by long, strap-like scales behind the head shield.
- There were also a pair of large extensions at the front of the head shield.
- The head shield has two pairs of long rearward spikes.
- The head shield had a series of grooves over the whole surface forming an extensive lateral line organ.
- No internal skeleton is known outside of the head shield.
- The head shield provided some lift though, and would have made the cephalaspidomorphi better swimmers than most of their contemporaries.
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