lituiticone
lituiticone noun: a conch or shell which completes few whorls in the beginning, and thereafter becomes a straight cone.
Noun
lituiticone (plural lituiticones)
- A conch or shell which completes few whorls in the beginning, and thereafter becomes a straight cone.
- An endogastric cyrtocone, the basal part sectioned showing the position of the siphuncle P.
A lituiticone. All side views, except M, have the shell oriented with the venter to the left1964, New Mexico. Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir - Description A nautiloid with a shell only partially coiled in a flat spiral (lituiticone) : the coiling appears in the first whorls, which may be only slightly touching, and the shell subsequently develops in a straight line[…]1986, Paolo Arduini, Giorgio Teruzzi, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Fossils, Simon & Schuster
- An endogastric cyrtocone, the basal part sectioned showing the position of the siphuncle P.
Forms of lituiticone
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Origin of lituiticone
From or related to the genus name Lituites.
Questions about lituiticone
- What does lituiticone mean?
- Lituiticone means a conch or shell which completes few whorls in the beginning, and thereafter becomes a straight cone.
- What part of speech is lituiticone?
- Lituiticone is a noun.
- What is the plural of lituiticone?
- The plural of lituiticone is lituiticones.
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