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What is a protoconch?

What is a protoconch? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (zoology) The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.
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None of the species examined show any kind of varix associated with the protoconch lip.
Spatial and temporal variation in statolith and protoconch trace elements as natural tags to track larval dispersal.
On the dorsal portion of the rostral face, the shell layers extend ventrolaterally from those of the protoconch.
It is not uncommon for both Recent and fossil volutes from southern South America to have a protoconch that is corroded to various degrees by cold acidic waters.
The latter species has a smooth, valvatiform, dextrally coiled teleoconch and a sinistral, anastrophic protoconch.
This considerable variation is due to the subellipsoidal form of the protoconch.

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