serpenticone
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editserpenticone (plural serpenticones)
- (malacology) An organism or fossil with a serpenticonic shell, or the shell itself.
- 2013, Neil H. Landman, Kazushige Tanabe, Richard Arnold Davis, Ammonoid Paleobiology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 632:
- All or most were pelagic, ranging from planktic serpenticones and spherocones to mobile discocones and oxycones.
Adjective
editserpenticone
- (malacology) Serpenticonic.
- 1927, Sydney Savory Buckman, Martin Simpson, George Young, Type Ammonites:
- [...] disturbance to such a form might produce rapid acceleration in two ways — in shape, from serpenticone to criocone, in ornament, from tuberculate to costate, that is, costate post-tuberculate.
- 1979, Paper, →ISBN:
- Coiling is serpenticone or heteromorph, sculpture is of ribbing (almost invariably simple), with external tuberculation in Choristoceratidae. Generally criocone although much of the phragmocone may be serpenticone.
See also
editReferences
edit- “serpenticone”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.