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Nipponites

Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Nipponites is an extinct genus of heteromorph ammonites. The shells of Nipponites (primarily N. mirabilis) form "ox-bow" bends, resulting in some of the

Nipponites

Ammonoidea

Extinct subclass of cephalopod molluscs

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

Ammonoidea

Ancyloceratina

Extinct suborder of ammonites

Baculites and Sciponoceras; the helically coiled Turrilites; and the bizarre Nipponites, which looked more like a ball of string than anything else. Some forms

Ancyloceratina

Nostoceratidae

Extinct family of ammonites

Madagascarites, Muramotoceras, Hyphantoceras, and the infamously convolute Nipponites. The ecology of nostoceratids is the subject of continued speculation

Nostoceratidae

National Museum of Nature and Science

Museum in Tokyo, Japan

Japan Pavilion and the Earth Pavilion. Zalophus japonicus Futabasaurus Nipponites ammonites Meteorites fell in Japan Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon)

National Museum of Nature and Science

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Turrilitoidea

Extinct superfamily of ammonites

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

Turrilitoidea

Seashell surface

Mathematical spiral-type surface

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):

Seashell surface

Seashell_surface

List of ammonite genera

Newmarracarroceras Niceforoceras Nicklesia Nicomedites Nielsenoceras Nigericeras Nipponites Nitanoceras Nodiocoeloceras Nodosageceras Nodosoclymenia Nodosohoplites

List of ammonite genera

List_of_ammonite_genera

Online names & meanings

Chatman

Surname or Lastname

English

Chatman

English : possibly an altered spelling of Chapman.Perhaps also an Americanized spelling of German Schattmann, a North German form of Schatzmann (see Schatzman).