lituiticonic

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English[edit]

A lituiticonic Lituites fossil.

Adjective[edit]

lituiticonic (not comparable)

  1. (malacology) Relating to, having the form of, or composed of, lituiticone(s).
    • 1958, Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift:
      Conch lituiticonic, with relatively large, compressed, loosely coiled adapical spiral, and a rather rapidly expanding, somewhat compressed uncoiled segment, which has a sigmoidal ventral outline in its adapical portion.
    • 1960, William Heyden Easton, Invertebrate Paleontology:
      Lituiticonic uncoiling of nautiloid conchs foreshadows much more extensive development of a similar trend among some Cretaceous ammonoids. It was formerly thought that most of the foregoing stages constituted an evolutionary series […]
    • 1973, Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Córdoba, Argentina), Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias:
      It has a rich macrofauna with Brachiopods, Gastropods, Nautiloids (orthoceraconic, cyrthoceraconic and lituiticonic) and Trilobites. The processed sample RG 68 comes from a point located on the right bank of the Guandacol River […]
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