Nipponites is an extinct genus of heteromorph ammonites. The shells of Nipponites (primarily N. mirabilis) form "ox-bow" bends, resulting in some of the...
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Baculites and Sciponoceras; the helically coiled Turrilites; and the bizarre Nipponites, which looked more like a ball of string than anything else. Some forms...
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Perhaps the most extreme and bizarre-looking example of a heteromorph is Nipponites, which appears to be a tangle of irregular whorls lacking any obvious...
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Japan Pavilion and the Earth Pavilion. Zalophus japonicus Futabasaurus Nipponites ammonites Meteorites fell in Japan Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon)...
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Madagascarites, Muramotoceras, Hyphantoceras, and the infamously convolute Nipponites. The ecology of nostoceratids is the subject of continued speculation...
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Hamites, had shells with long straight sections, while the one-of-a-kind Nipponites coiled in a way so as to appear as a ball of knots. As with other ammonites...
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seashell surfaces", Il Nuovo Cimento 11D(5): 761-780. C. Illert (Oct 1990),"Nipponites mirabilis, a challenge to seashell theory?", Il Nuovo Cimento 12D(10):...
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Newmarracarroceras Niceforoceras Nicklesia Nicomedites Nielsenoceras Nigericeras Nipponites Nitanoceras Nodiocoeloceras Nodosageceras Nodosoclymenia Nodosohoplites...
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