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psiloceratacean

psiloceratacean noun: any ammonoid cephalopod of the superfamily Psilocerataceae.

Noun

psiloceratacean (plural psilocerataceans)

  1. Any ammonoid cephalopod of the superfamily Psilocerataceae.
    • Many British stratigraphers have historically used the first occurrence of the ammonite Psiloceras planorbis to indicate the base of the Jurassic, but elsewhere in Europe two other psiloceratacean ammonites appear before P.2016 January 21, “The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of psiloceratacean

pluralpsilocerataceans

Origin of psiloceratacean

Psilocerataceae + -an

Questions about psiloceratacean

What does psiloceratacean mean?
Psiloceratacean means any ammonoid cephalopod of the superfamily Psilocerataceae.
What part of speech is psiloceratacean?
Psiloceratacean is a noun.
What is the plural of psiloceratacean?
The plural of psiloceratacean is psilocerataceans.

Words near psiloceratacean in the dictionary

  1. psile
  2. psili
  3. psilid
  4. psilids
  5. psilo-
  6. psiloceratacean
  7. psilocerataceans
  8. psiloceratid
  9. psiloceratids
  10. psilocin
  11. psilocybe

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