Meanings
adjectivesubellipsoidal (not comparable)
- not comparableSomewhat ellipsoidal.
This considerable variation (68%) is due to the subellipsoidal form of the protoconch.
2016 January 14, “Paleobiology of the Latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Ammonite Salinites grossicostatum Inferred from Internal and External Shell Parameters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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