Criocone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Criocone is a noun meaning (malacology) An organism or fossil with a crioconic shell, or such a shell itself.
Meaning
(malacology) An organism or fossil with a crioconic shell, or such a shell itself.
More Meanings
- (malacology) Crioconic.
Example Sentences
[...] disturbance to such a form might produce rapid acceleration in two ways — in shape, from serpenticone to criocone, in ornament, from tuberculate to costate, that is, costate post-tuberculate.
Small planospiral criocones with partially coiled whorls (microconchs) or completely uncoiled (macroconchs). Whorl-section hexagonal, rounded up to round. The protoconch and the first whorl unknown, but [...]
Word Forms
- criocones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cyrtoceracone, cyrtocone, orthoceracone, orthocone, longicone, torticone.
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