prochoanitic

English

Adjective

prochoanitic (not comparable)

(anatomy) That points forward.
- 2016 January 14, “Paleobiology of the Latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Ammonite Salinites grossicostatum Inferred from Internal and External Shell Parameters”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0145865:
  The primary constriction is followed by a sudden change from a retrochoanitic to prochoanitic septal neck in the first half of the second whorl.

Related terms

retrochoanitic; for more, see list in orthochoanitic

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