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hamitocone

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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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, [...]

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