criocone
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Noun
criocone (plural criocones)
- (malacology) An organism or fossil with a crioconic shell, or such a shell itself.
- 2002, K. Histon, Albert Daurer, Cephalopods, present and past:
- 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 [...]
- 2002, K. Histon, Albert Daurer, Cephalopods, present and past:
Adjective
criocone
- (malacology) Crioconic.
- 1927, Sydney Savory Buckman, Martin Simpson, George Young, Type Ammonites:
- [...] 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:
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