holochoanitic
English
Adjective
holochoanitic (not comparable)
- (paleontology) Long, cylindrical, and reaching between adjacent septums.
- 1942, Ozarkian and Canadian Cephalopods: Part III: Longicones and Summary, →ISBN:
- Other Early Paleozoic cephalopods have holochoanitic siphuncles
- 1964, Memoir - New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, page 11:
- He accepted the Plectronoceratidae as primitive, and the Ellesmeroceratidae as the derived next step, one characterized by holochoanitic structure and diaphragms, and leading to a group of endoceroids;
- 2012, Raymond Enay, Palaeontology of Invertebrates, →ISBN:
- However, over a short period of time (less than 10 Ma) during the late Devonian, the Clymeniida developed a dorsal (or internal) holochoanitic siphon.
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Related terms
- see list in orthochoanitic