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Record 1 2004-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Zoology
  • Paleontology
CONT

Shape and size [of solitary corals] range from an extremely low cone with an apical angle of 120° or more (patellate), through discoid (button-shaped), to horn-shaped and slender with an apical angle of 20° or less (ceratoid).

OBS

patellate: Elsevier publication on rugose corals, 1973.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zoologie
  • Paléontologie
DEF

En pointe émoussée.

CONT

[...] c'est un angle obtus (à peu près 120°).

Spanish

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