Lath seen from the back with brown coat oozing through. Lath and plaster is a building process used to finish mainly interior walls and ceilings in Canada and the United States until the late 1950s. After the 1950s, drywall began to replace the lath and plaster process in the United States.
Chapter 6: Phylum Brachiopoda. 6.1 Introduction. While recent brachiopods are a rather rare and insignificant group, their long fossil history shows that they were at times the most prominent animals in the seas.he phylum is quite important for biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and evolutionary studies because it shows a great variety of changes in form and function through time. Brachiopods appear near the beginning of the Cambrian, but did not become abundant until the Early Ordovician.
The shell of a bivalve is composed of calcium carbonate, and consists of two, usually similar, parts called valves. These are joined together along one edge (the hinge line) by a flexible ligament that, usually in conjunction with interlocking teeth on each of the valves, forms the hinge.rachiopods are shelled marine organisms that superficially resembled bivalves in that they are of similar size and have a hinged shell in two parts. However, brachiopods evolved from a very different ancestral line, and the resemblance to bivalves only arose because of a similar lifestyle.