adeoniform

Resembling the fossil bryozoan Adeona, especially in forming a colony that is lobate and bilamellar.

Adjective

  1. Resembling the fossil bryozoan Adeona, especially in forming a colony that is lobate and bilamellar.
    • In both faunas, the dominant zoarial types are catenicelliform, followed by the cellariiform, adeoniform, and vinculariiform. - 1969, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project...
    • The Aliso Viejo cheilostome branches represent the adeoniform (originally included within the vinculariiform) zoarial growth form, which today occurs predominantly on deeper shelf […] bottoms, in quiet water with slow...
    • The community of bryozoans associated with the rhizomes comprises 49 species. The most common fragments belong to an adeoniform species, […] - 2012, Andrej Ernst, Priska Schäfer, Joachim Scholz, Bryozoan Studies 2010,...