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Definition of Phragmocones

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.]

Meaning of Phragmocones from wikipedia

- siphuncle. There are occasions where trilobites have been preserved within phragmocones, presumably where they crawled in for refuge. Henderson, ROBERT A.; McNamara...
- one side of the phragmocone is the thin pro-ostra****. While belemnoid phragmocones are homologous with the s**** of other cephalopods and are similarly...
- connective tissue. They had calcite guards, and aragonite pro-ostraca and phragmocones, though a few belemnites also had aragonite guards, and the alveolar...
- for spirula, they are the only coleoid cephalopods with a s**** with a phragmocone divided into chambers separated by septa. The pores provide it with buoyancy...
- by their septa, the dividing walls that separate the chambers in the phragmocone, by the nature of their sutures where the septa join the outer s****...
- from the siphuncle which extends through the rest of the septa (the phragmocone) to provide buoyancy. "Definition of BODY WHORL". www.merriam-webster...
- large external s****, divided into a narrowing chambered region (the phragmocone) and a broad, open body chamber occupied by the animal in life. The outer...
- mantle. Donovan (2006), gives a similar description for Phragmoteuthis: Phragmocones as having an apical angle of between 20 and 30 degrees, and relatively...
- (estimate; phragmocone only) Miller & Kummel (1944); Teichert & Kummel (1960:2) Size estimate based on two portions of an internal mould of the phragmocone, measuring...
- divides into camerae (chambers), the chambered section being called the phragmocone. The divisions are defined by septa, each of which is pierced in the...