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serpenticone en · ADJ

Etymology

From serpent + -i- + cone.

Meanings

1. Serpenticonic.
   • [...] 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. 1927, Sydney Savory Buckman, Martin Simpson, George Young, Type Ammonites:
   • Coiling is serpenticone or heteromorph, sculpture is of ribbing (almost invariably simple), with external tuberculation in Choristoceratidae. Generally criocone although much of the phragmocone may be serpenticone. 1979, Paper, →ISBN:

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involute

serpenticone en · NOUN

Etymology

From serpent + -i- + cone.

Meanings

1. An organism or fossil with a serpenticonic shell, or the shell itself.
   • All or most were pelagic, ranging from planktic serpenticones and spherocones to mobile discocones and oxycones. 2013, Neil H. Landman, Kazushige Tanabe, Richard Arnold Davis, Ammonoid Paleobiology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 632:

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