lituiticone

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noun

A conch or shell which completes few whorls in the beginning, and thereafter becomes a straight cone.

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Meanings

nounlituiticone (plural lituiticones)

plural lituiticones

  1. biologyA conch or shell which completes few whorls in the beginning, and thereafter becomes a straight cone.

    […] The shells are slender orthocones or rapidly expanding lituiticones, either weakly cyrtoconic or with the apical part spirally[…]

    2020 March 10, Winston Frank Ponder, David R. Lindberg, Juliet Mary Ponder, Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, Volume 2, CRC Press, →ISBN
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    An endogastric cyrtocone, the basal part sectioned showing the position of the siphuncle P. A lituiticone. All side views, except M, have the shell oriented with the venter to the left

    1964, New Mexico. Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir

    Description A nautiloid with a shell only partially coiled in a flat spiral (lituiticone) : the coiling appears in the first whorls, which may be only slightly touching, and the shell subsequently develops in a straight line[…]

    1986, Paolo Arduini, Giorgio Teruzzi, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Fossils, Simon & Schuster

Origin

From or related to the genus name Lituites.

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