Hamitocone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hamitocone is a noun meaning (malacology) An organism or fossil with a hamitoconic shell, or the shell itself.
Meaning
(malacology) An organism or fossil with a hamitoconic shell, or the shell itself.
Example Sentences
In scaphitocones, the `pendulum effect' created by this separation was not as highly pronounced as in true ancylocones and hamitocones with open whorls throughout […]
Lytoceras and certain heteromorphs (eg, ancylocones, hamitocones) are the most appropriate for modeling because they exhibit the relevant features but are not overly complicated […]
This pattern suggests that hamitocones were exposed to extensive post-mortem drift. […] Contrary to the lytoceratids and kossmaticeratids, hamitocones are characterized by a more […]
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, […]
Word Forms
- hamitocones
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