| 1. | In modern times, brachiopods are not as common as bivalves.
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| 2. | Like brachiopods, epifaunal varieties of bivalves were predated upon heavily.
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| 3. | They are usually small, and are found growing on brachiopods.
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| 4. | Brachiopods, gastropods, and sponges were also important Cambrian animals.
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| 5. | Brachiopods suffered greatly and never regained their previous numbers or variety.
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| 6. | In some brachiopods though, hemerythrin shows cooperative binding of O 2.
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| 7. | In contrast, the brachiopods lost 95 % of their species diversity.
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| 8. | Brachiopods, bivalves, echinoderms, bryozoans and corals were particularly affected.
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| 9. | Their diet consisted of marine bivalves, brachiopods, and other invertebrates.
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| 10. | These brachiopods have adductor and oblique muscles, but no diductor muscles.
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