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.
Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are marine animals that have hard valves (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs.Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear end, while the front can be opened for feeding or closed for protection.ipe gametes (ova or sperm) float from the gonads into the main coelom and then exit into the mantle cavity. The larvae of inarticulate brachiopods are miniature adults, with lophophores that enable the larvae to feed and swim for months until the animals become heavy enough to settle to the seabed.