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Ancestor :: Ancestor (n.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse..

Ovulite :: Ovulite (n.) A fossil egg.

Echinite :: Echinite (n.) A fossil echinoid.

Squalodont :: Squalodon (n.) A genus of fossil whales belonging to the Phocodontia; -- so called because their are serrated, like a shark's..

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

Madreporite :: Madreporite (n.) A fossil coral.

Baculite :: Baculite (n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite..

Rockwood :: Rockwood (n.) Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood..

Arborization :: Arborization (n.) The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite..

Cephalaspis :: Cephalaspis (n.) A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points..

Megalosaurus :: Megalosaurus (n.) A gigantic carnivorous dinosaur, whose fossil remains have been found in England and elsewhere..

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

Fossilist :: Fossilist (n.) One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist.

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

Lithophyll :: Lithophyll (n.) A fossil leaf or impression of a leaf.

Fucoidal :: Fucoidal (a.) Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone..

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

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

Crinoidea :: Crinoidea (n. pl.) A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula..

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

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