In this groundbreaking book, Susan Ewing reveals these revolutionary insights into what Helicoprion looked like and how the tooth whorl functioned—pushing this dazzling and awe-inspiring beast into the spotlight of modern science
Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature and claims that the beast is a Helicoprion, thought to be extinct.
Die Vorfälle werden noch mysteriöser, als die Marinebiologin Elise Sheldon der Kreatur begegnet. Ihre Behauptung, dass es sich um einen Helicoprion handeln würde, wird schnell abgetan.
... Helicoprion skeleton, has long proved elusive, leaving us puzzling over its function and anatomical configuration since the first Helicoprion fossils were discovered in the late 1800s. Artists have done their best to make some ...
... Helicoprion. The Russian Director, as an alternative hypothesis to regarding the thrice-coiled spirals of Helicoprion as caudal spines, advances the conjecture that the whorls protruded freely from the mouth-cavity above the head in ...
... Helicoprion . Zap . vseross . mineral . Obshch . , ( 2 ) XXXVI , 361-476 , 72 figs . , 4 pls . Abstr . , 1902 A. Rev. , Woodward , A. S. 1900 F. / Eastman , C. R. 1900 F. Sur les restes des édestés et le nouveau genre Helicoprion . Mém ...
... Helicoprion clerci KARPINSKY 1916 ; Helicoprion ivanovi KARPINSKY 1922 ; Helicoprion mexi- canus MÜLLERIED 1945 ; and Helicoprion karpinskii OBRUCHEV 1953 ) display still more distinct differences as compared with the fragments of ...
... Helicoprion had hundreds of teeth tightly packed into a compact spiral that looked like a 10 - inch buzz - saw blade ! Helicoprion lived about 250 million years ago , and very little fossil evidence of these creatures has been found ...
... Helicoprion dagegen zieht sich längs der gesammten Innenseite der Spirale eine tiefe Rinne hin , die zur Aufnahme eines Longitudinalgefässes gedient hat . Somit bildet die Spiralform , die Vertheilung der emailartigen Bedeckung und die ...