Grouped by Shape or Type
(or display shapes listed with definitions or in a table, ordered alphabetically)
| Conical Shapes | |||
) conical |
) biconic |
) obconic |
) coeloconoid |
| Tall and Narrow Shapes | ||||
) high spired |
) turriform (=turriculate) |
) cyrtoconoid |
) fusiform |
) spindle-shaped |
| Enveloping Whorls (no spire exposed) | ||||
) convolute |
) involute |
) bulloid |
) isostrophic |
) cypraeiform |
| Regular Shapes | ||||
) cylindrical |
) obovate |
) ovate |
) pupiform |
) turbinate |
| Coiling Direction | Round Shapes | |||
) dextral |
) sinistral |
) hyperstrophic |
bulloid |
) globose |
| Flat Shapes | |||
) lenticular |
) discoidal |
) low spired |
) planispiral |
| Coiling | Cap Shapes | |||
) tightly coiled |
) loosely coiled |
) disjunct whorl |
) patelliform |
) slipper-shaped |
| Miscellaneous Shapes | |
) stromboid |
) tubular |