prochoanitic

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prochoanitic (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) That points forward.
    • 2016 January 14, “Paleobiology of the Latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Ammonite Salinites grossicostatum Inferred from Internal and External Shell Parameters”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      The primary constriction is followed by a sudden change from a retrochoanitic to prochoanitic septal neck in the first half of the second whorl.

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