Meaning of hamitoconic | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a shell which has two or more straight shafts, like some heteromorph ammonites such as Polyptychoceras.

Examples

“Juveniles had virtually all possible types of coiling of their shells, ranging from regular planispiral and orthoconic to torticonic, hamitoconic and gyroconic.”

“... hamitoconic, orthoconic, scaphitoconic, torticonic and vermiconic.”

“... hamitoconic heteromorphs grew shell forms that started out orthoconic but then underwent a sharp 180-degree turn such that the next growth stage of the animal was straight, but parallel to the original orthoconic section and growing in[…]”

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