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HAMITIDAE [1 record]

Record 1 1977-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[The] coiling [of ammonoids of the family humitidae is] rather irregular but typically [is] an open plane spiral tending to end in 2 or 3 more or less parallel shafts; [the] section [is] circular to compressed; [they have] dense, normally straight radial or oblique ribs, continuous over venter, in some shells interrupted on dorsum, no tubercles. [The] suture [is] lytoceratoid (...) "L.Cret(U.Apt.)-U.Cret.(Turon.)".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[La famille des hamitidae est un] groupe provisoire de coquilles déroulées ayant des côtes simples, ininterrompues ventralement, et sans tubercules à aucun stade. [Le] mode d'enroulement [est] très variable.

Spanish

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