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Definition of Phragmocone

Phragmocone
Phragmocone Phrag"mo*cone, n. [Gr. ?, ?, a fence, an inclosure + ? a cone.] (Zo["o]l.) The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite. [Written also phragmacone.]

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- The phragmocone is the chambered portion of the s**** of a cephalopod. It is divided by septa into camerae. In most nautiloids and ammonoids, the phragmocone...
- the arms-most to the tip: the tongue-shaped pro-ostra****, the conical phragmocone, and the pointy guard. The calcitic guard is the most common belemnite...
- the phragmocone). The phragmocone is usually only found with the better preserved specimens. Projecting forwards from one side of the phragmocone is the...
- are the spaces or chambers enclosed between two adjacent septa in the phragmocone of a nautiloid or ammonoid cephalopod molluscus. These can be seen in...
- distinctive slit at its ventral surface and a ridge on the dorsal surface. The phragmocone (internal s****) has a small protoconch at its tip, and fit into the...
- aperture, without a hyponomic sinus, and a small, subventral siphuncle. The phragmocone is rapidly expanding and strongly exogastric. The body chamber is attached...
- Spirula s**** Ventral view; the siphuncle and the last septum of the phragmocone are visible Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus described Nautilus spirula...
- subclass Ammonoidea. The chambered part of the ammonite s**** is called a phragmocone. It contains a series of progressively larger chambers, called camerae...
- main difference between Boletzkya and Naefiteuthis is the length of the phragmocone at which time the living chamber becomes gladius-like and dominates the...
- to other s****ed cephalopods, although it does not have a chambered phragmocone. Once thought to contribute to occasional m**** strandings on beaches...