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hamitocone

hamitocone noun: an organism or fossil with a hamitoconic shell, or the shell itself.

hamitocone: an organism or fossil with a hamitoconic shell, or the shell itself
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Noun

hamitocone (plural hamitocones)

  1. An organism or fossil with a hamitoconic shell, or the shell itself.
    • In scaphitocones, the `pendulum effect' created by this separation was not as highly pronounced as in true ancylocones and hamitocones with open whorls throughout […]1998, CJ Tsujita, GEG Westermann, “Ammonoid habitats and habits in the Western Interior Seaway: a case study from the Upper Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation of southern Alberta, Canada”, in...
    • Lytoceras and certain heteromorphs (eg, ancylocones, hamitocones) are the most appropriate for modeling because they exhibit the relevant features but are not overly complicated […]2002, MA Hassan, GEG Westermann, RA Hewitt et al., "Finite-element analysis of simulated ammonoid septa (extinct Cephalopoda): septal and sutural complexities do not reduce strength"

Forms of hamitocone

pluralhamitocones

Questions about hamitocone

What does hamitocone mean?
Hamitocone means an organism or fossil with a hamitoconic shell, or the shell itself.
What part of speech is hamitocone?
Hamitocone is a noun.
What is the plural of hamitocone?
The plural of hamitocone is hamitocones.

Words near hamitocone in the dictionary

  1. Hamiticists
  2. Hamiticized
  3. Hamitism
  4. Hamito-
  5. Hamito-Semitic
  6. hamitocone
  7. hamitocones
  8. hamitoconic
  9. Hamitoid
  10. Hamitoids
  11. Hamler

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