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OXYCONE [3 records]

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Record 1 1977-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[It is a] depressed, barrel-shaped [ammonite] shell with more or less evolute coiling, [a] wide venter and [a] crater-like umbilicus (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Les contours si variés de la section, combinés aux différentes valeurs de l'angle d’ouverture de cône théorique ainsi qu'aux divers degrés d’involution déterminent, pour la coquille spiralée [d’une Ammonite], une infinité de formes parmi lesquelles se distinguent les principaux types suivants :oxycône(...), platycône(...), sphaerocône(...), cadicône(...)

Spanish

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Record 2 1977-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[It is a] discordal [ammonite] shell with [an] acute periphery and [a] very narrow umbilicus (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Il s’agit d’une] coquille lenticulaire tranchante [d’Ammonite.]

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A serpenticone is a] very evolute many-whorled shell with whorls hardly overlapping, like [a] coiled snake or rope (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Les contours si variés de la section, combinés aux différentes valeurs de l'angle d’ouverture du cône théorique ainsi qu'aux divers degrés d’involution déterminent pour la coquille spiralée [d’un Ammonite], une infinité de formes parmi lesquelles se distinguent les principaux types suivants :oxycône(...), platycône(...), sphaerocône(...), cadicône(...), serpenticône(...)

Spanish

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