1888 Huxley & Martin's Elem. Biol. 225A rostro-antennary branch;..distributed to the antennule and rostrum.
1912 R. Lankester in Phil. Trans. R.Soc. B. CCII. 295We distinguish..an anterior surface, narrowed to the form of a keel and ending in a beak (hence we call the implement ‘rostro-carinate’) as a consequence of the oblique direction and convergence of the lateral surfaces, which approach one another so as to leave only a narrow keel-like ridge between them.
1934 Jrnl. R.Anthrop. Inst. LXIV. 337Among these large tools (which were afterwards called Sangoan), a number of well-made rostro-carinate forms is to be distinguished.
1952 Mem. Geol. Survey Uganda VI. ii. 64The most finely finished product is somewhat canoe-like in shape—sharp prow, blunt stern..; the less finished or those not elaborately shaped, rather like a flat bottomed boat or rostro-carinate.
1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era II. xxxviii. 1016The Cromerian implements..are ochreous or orange-brown artefacts, often striated as at East Runton. The tools are usually made from heavy flakes but include rostrocarinates and crude Abbevillean forms.
1964 K. P. Oakley Frameworks for dating Fossil Man iv. 176Some were beak-shaped. [ Oldowan flakes] ‘Rostro-carinate’, a term which is better avoided since it suggests identification with the flaked flints well known under that name from the Crags of East Anglia which are now regarded to be of natural origin. [ Note, p. 263]
1960 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. CXV. 166/2In the medial nucleus a topographic organization is suggested in which the nucleus has effectively made a 180° rotation rostro-caudally.
1975 Nature 17 Apr. 617/2 There is also a gradient, though less steep, rostrocaudally along the eminentia.
1872 H. A. Nicholson Palaeont. 151The one nearest the rostrum ‘rostro-lateral’.
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