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from The Century Dictionary.
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planispiral .
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Although most forams with coiled shells are planospiral like the two in Aydin's sample illustrations, many have a helical called trochospiral by specialists form, like Ceratobulimina, the illustration in the center of the composite.
A shell of a different kind AYDIN 2006
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