Oxycone

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A type of ammonoid with a slim, disk-shaped (oxyconic) shell.

    "The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses."

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"The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses."

Etymology

From oxy- + cone.

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