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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of pachycampylous ammonoid cephalopods having smooth, involute, compressed discoidal shells, often of large size, with very complex sutures, which are of ceratitoid outline in young stages of growth. The genus occurs in Cretaceous rocks.

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