They were particularly abundant during the Palaeozoic Era (248 to 545 million years ago), and are often the most common fossils in rock of that age. The brachipod Goniorhynchia boueti. Brachiopods are marine animals belonging to their own phylum, Brachiopoda, of the animal kingdom.
[ 2 syll. (c)hel-sea, ch-els-ea ] The baby girl name Chelsea is also used as a boy name, though it is far more popular for girls. It is pronounced as CH-EHLSiy- â . Chelsea is of Old English origin and it is used mainly in English. The name Chelsea means 'landing place for chalk or limestone'. It is derived from cealc which means 'chalk, limestone' ; hyth 'landing place, harbor'. The first name is from the district Chelsea in London.
IN ENGLISH, the symbol is boringly known as commercial at, but other languages offer more imaginative names. In Swedish, it is called snabel-a , (a with an elephant's trunk), or kanelbulle , the Swedish equivalent of the Chelsea bun. In German it is called Klammerraffe , (a clinging monkey) - presumably hanging from a tree by one arm.