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Gyracanthus :: Gyracanthus (n.) A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines..

Entomolite :: Entomolite (n.) A fossil insect.

Exuviae :: Exuviae (n. pl.) The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.

Fungite :: Fungite (n.) A fossil coral resembling Fungia.

Pecopteris :: Pecopteris (n.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.

Lycopodite :: Lycopodite (n.) An old name for a fossil club moss.

Juncite :: Juncite (n.) A fossil rush.

Fossil :: Fossil (a.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells..

Fauna :: Fauna (n.) The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna..

Nautilus :: Nautilus (n.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata..

Scientific :: Scientific (a.) Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils..

Tentaculite :: Tentaculite (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods..

Turbite :: Turbite (n.) A fossil turbo.

Lithocarp :: Lithocarp (n.) Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.

Ornitholite :: Ornitholite (n.) The fossil remains of a bird.

Proostracum :: Proostracum (n.) The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone..

Carpolite :: Carpolite (n.) A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed..

Spirillum :: Spirifer (n.) Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side..

Fossilize :: Fossilize (v. i.) To become fossil.

Laminarite :: Laminarite (n.) A broad-leafed fossil alga.

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