criocone

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek κρῑός (krīós, ram) + cone.[1][2]

Noun

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criocone (plural criocones)

  1. (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 [...]

Adjective

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criocone

  1. (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.

References

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  1. ^ I.F. Henderson, W.D. Henderson, J.H. Kenneth (1920) “criocone”, in A Dictionary Of Scientific Terms, seventh edition, page 116
  2. ^ Rudolf Schlegelmilch (1985) Die Ammoniten des süddeutschen Doggers: Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Fossiliensammler und Geologen (in German), Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9

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