Meaning of lituiticone | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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”

“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[…]”

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

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