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Nummulite :: Nummulite (n.) A fossil of the genus Nummulites and allied genera.

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..

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

Ichthyolite :: Ichthyolite (n.) A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish..

Hippurite :: Hippurite (n.) A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper valve or lid. Hippurites are found only in the Cretaceous rocks..

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

Ambrite :: Ambrite (n.) A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand.

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

Fossil :: Fossil (n.) A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.

Limuloidea :: Limuloidea (n. pl.) An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura..

Exogyra :: Exogyra (n.) A genus of Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters.

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

Calcinable :: Calcinable (a.) That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil..

Ichnite :: Ichnite (n.) A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone..

Oryctography :: Oryctography (n.) Description of fossils.

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

Thecodontia :: Thecodontia (n. pl.) A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebrae and the teeth implanted in sockets.

Terebratula :: Terebratula (n.) A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell..

Pterichthys :: Pterichthys (n.) A genus of Devonian fossil fishes with winglike appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See Placodermi.

Fossilize :: Fossilize (v. t.) To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood..

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