anteriorly

comparative more anteriorly · superlative most anteriorly · alternative anteriourly

1. before (in time)
2. in front (in position)
3. towards the anterior

   In both cases the histial dolon is united anteriorly with the velar dolon and both genera are also similar in being unisulcate .

   2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 1045

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   Margin of dolon curling smoothly to distal margin of velum both anteriorly and posteriorly, but dolonal margins not in contact when valves closed.

   1977, Murray John Copeland, Early Paleozoic Ostracoda from Southwestern District of Mackenzie and Yukon Territory, page 30