Etymology From Ancient Greek κρῑός (krīós, “ram”) + cone.
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Biology, Malacology, Natural sciences An organism or fossil with a crioconic shell, or such a shell itself.
Small planospiral criocones with partially coiled whorls (microconchs) or completely uncoiled (macroconchs). Whorl-section hexagonal, rounded up to round. The protoconch and the first whorl unknown, but [...]2002, K. Histon, Albert Daurer, Cephalopods, present and past:
criocone
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Etymology From Ancient Greek κρῑός (krīós, “ram”) + cone.
[...] 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.1927, Sydney Savory Buckman, Martin Simpson, George Young, Type Ammonites: