noun
Meaning 1
An organism or fossil with a hamitoconic shell, or the shell itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, malacology, natural-sciences
Examples
- 2005, S. Reboulet, F. Giraud, O. Proux, "Ammonoid abundance variations related to changes in trophic conditions across the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1d (Latest Albian, SE France)", Palaios [...] the shell would be easier in orthocones and torticones, which were oriented vertically in life with an aperture towards the bottom, than for scaphitocones, ancylocones, and hamitocones, [...]
Meaning relationships
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