Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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DAVIDSONIA. Zool. A fossil bivalve brachipod of the Lower Devonian period (1849 Bouchard in Annals Sci. Nat. (Zool.) XII. 92). Other brachiopods have been called Davidsonella, Davidsonina.
[After Thomas Davidson (1817–85), of Edinburgh, eminent geologist and palaeontologist.]
