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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See 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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