Hamitoconic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Hamitoconic is an adjective meaning (malacology, of a shell or fossil) Having a shell which has two or more straight shafts, like some heteromorph ammonites such as Polyptychoceras.
Meaning
(malacology, of a shell or fossil) Having a shell which has two or more straight shafts, like some heteromorph ammonites such as Polyptychoceras.
Example Sentences
... hamitoconic, orthoconic, scaphitoconic, torticonic and vermiconic.
Juveniles had virtually all possible types of coiling of their shells, ranging from regular planispiral and orthoconic to torticonic, hamitoconic and gyroconic.
... hamitoconic heteromorphs grew shell forms that started out orthoconic but then underwent a sharp 180-degree turn such that the next growth stage of the animal was straight, but parallel to the original orthoconic section and growing in[…]
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