adeoniform

English

Adjective

adeoniform (not comparable)

1. Resembling the fossil bryozoan Adeona, especially in forming a colony that is lobate and bilamellar.
   • 1969, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (page 812)

     In both faunas, the dominant zoarial types are catenicelliform, followed by the cellariiform, adeoniform, and vinculariiform.

   • 1981, Gilbert Powell Larwood, Claus Nielsen, Recent and Fossil Bryozoa: Papers Presented at the 5th International Conference on Bryozoa, Durham, 1980, page 71:

     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 sedimentation […]

   • 2012, Andrej Ernst, Priska Schäfer, Joachim Scholz, Bryozoan Studies 2010, page 187:

     The community of bryozoans associated with the rhizomes comprises 49 species. The most common fragments belong to an adeoniform species, […]