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IMPRESSED ZONE [2 records]

Record 1 1977-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Cephalopods of the family, aturiidae have a] smooth, very involute to occluded discoidal conch, flattened laterally, rounded ventrally, with [a] deep impressed zone; [they have a] suture with [a] broad, flattened ventral saddle, [a] narrow pointed lateral lobe, [a] broadly rounded lateral saddle, [a] broad lobe on [the] umbilical slope and dorsal area, and [a] broad saddle on [the] dorsal area divided by [a] deep, narrow lobe; [the] siphuncle [is] moderate in size, subdorsal and located in [a] infundibuliform dorsal adapical flexure of septa. "Paleoc.-Mio. ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les céphalopodes de la famille des aturidae ont un] nautilicône fortement comprimé, lisse, [un] ombilic petit, [une] loge d'habitation occupant un demi-tour, [une] dépression dorsale accusée, [une] suture différenciée au maximum (...), [un] siphon dorsal marginal à longs cols septaux en forme d'entonnoirs et emboîtés. [Ils ont une] flexure correspondante marquée du lobe dorsal sutural (...)

Spanish

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Record 2 1977-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

In convolute and involute [nautiloid] conchs, the concave, dorsal part of a whorl in contact with the convex, ventral part of the preceding whorl is called the "impressed zone"(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Une dépression dorsale (...), de forme spirale (...), moulée sur la région externe du tour précédent, de règle sur tous les tours [d'une coquille de nautile] sauf le premier des enroulements étroitement contigus (...) se retrouve parfois ailleurs sur des portions de tour non étroitement enroulés (...)

Spanish

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