crioconic
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Biology, Malacology, Natural sciences Having the shape of a ram's horn.
- Very open crioconic whorls, which gradually pass into a long straight shaft.1997, Nico M. M. Janssen, Mikhail Vladimirovich Kakabadze, Ph. J. Hoedemaeker, Mediterranean Neocomian belemnites:
- Hoplocriocone - crioconic early whorls. The last whorl bends away from crioconic spiral and (without becoming straight) is gradually bent like a hook.1988, Jost Wiedmann, Jürgen Kullmann, Cephalopods Present and Past: O.H. Schindewolf Symposium, Tübingen 1985:
- Related terms
- criocone, arietiform