holochoanitic

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holochoanitic (not comparable)

  1. (paleontology) Long, cylindrical, and reaching between adjacent septums.
    • 1942, Ozarkian and Canadian Cephalopods: Part III: Longicones and Summary, →ISBN:
      Other Early Paleozoic cephalopods have holochoanitic siphuncles
    • 1964, Memoir - New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, page 11:
      He accepted the Plectronoceratidae as primitive, and the Ellesmeroceratidae as the derived next step, one characterized by holochoanitic structure and diaphragms, and leading to a group of endoceroids;
    • 2012, Raymond Enay, Palaeontology of Invertebrates, →ISBN:
      However, over a short period of time (less than 10 Ma) during the late Devonian, the Clymeniida developed a dorsal (or internal) holochoanitic siphon.

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