单词 | longicone |
释义 | > as lemmaslongicone longicone n. Brit. /ˈlɒn(d)ʒᵻkəʊn/ , U.S. /ˈlɔndʒəˌkoʊn/ , /ˈlɑndʒəˌkoʊn/ Palaeontology a long conical shell, as characteristic of certain fossil nautiloid cephalopods; a cephalopod with such a shell; also attributive. [After French longicone, adjective (1859 in this sense: J. Barrande, in Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 845; 1820 or earlier describing a long conical beak of a bird ( C. J. Temminck Man. d'Ornithologie)).] ΚΠ 1882 J. F. Blake Monogr. Brit. Fossil Cephalopoda i. 23 Barrande has distinguished those in which it is great as brevicones and those in which it is small as longicones.] 1884 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 22 275 Kionoceras, nobis, includes the longicones in which the longitudinal ridges are more prominent than the transverse striae or ridges. 1884 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 22 276 All those longicone species. 1937 Amer. Midl. Naturalist 18 573 Shell a longicone, small, sides straight, slowly tapering. 2004 B. D. Webby in B. D. Webby et al. Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event 26/1 Both these longicone groups have long histories through the Paleozoic. < as lemmas |
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