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Goniatite :: Goniatite (n.) One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic..

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

Coprolite :: Coprolite (n.) A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Typolite :: Typolite (n.) A stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals.

Ichthyocoprolite :: Ichthyocoprolite (n.) Fossil dung of fishes.

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

Dendrolite :: Dendrolite (n.) A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant..

Lapidification :: Lapidification (n.) The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction.

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

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

Favosites :: Favosites (n.) A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls..

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..

Encrinoidea :: Encrinoidea (n. pl.) That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea..

Protohippus :: Protohippus (n.) A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small..

Retene :: Retene (n.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins..

Essay :: Essay (n.) A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce..

Milleporite :: Milleporite (n.) A fossil millepore.

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

Elephant :: Elephant (n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing..

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

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