"Septate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bent in any way, but possessing the folded septa which characterise the whole Ammonite family. The Baculite is the simplest of all the forms of the Ammonitidoe; and all the other forms, however complex, may be regarded as being simply produced by the bending or folding of such a conical septate shell in different ways. The Baculite, therefore, corresponds, in the series of the Ammonitidoe, to the Orthoceras in the series of the Nautilidoe. All the above-mentioned genera are characteristically, or exclusively, Cretaceous, ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson |
