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Juniperite :: "Juniperite (n.) One of the fossil Coniferae, evidently allied to the juniper..

Tetrabranchiata :: Tetrabranchiata (n. pl.) An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc..

Paleobotany :: Paleobotany (n.) That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Mosasauria :: Mosasauria (n. pl.) An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria..

Paleontographical :: Paleontographical (a.) Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.

Intercentrum :: Intercentrum (n.) The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebrae in some fossil batrachians.

Ginglymodi :: Ginglymodi (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel..

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

Balanite :: Balanite (n.) A fossil balanoid shell.

Cystidea :: Cystidea (n. pl.) An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems..

Scolithus :: Scolithus (n.) A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm..

Ornithoidichnite :: Ornithoidichnite (n.) A fossil track resembling that of a bird.

Monifier :: Monifier (n.) A fossil fish.

Ichnolite :: Ichnolite (n.) A fossil footprint; an ichnite.

Paleontography :: Paleontography (n.) The description of fossil remains.

Capstone :: Capstone (n.) A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.

Fossiliferous :: Fossiliferous (a.) Containing or composed of fossils.

Antholite :: Antholite (n.) A fossil plant, like a petrified flower..

Parkeria :: Parkeria (n.) A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball..

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

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