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homotaxial, a. Geol.|-ˈtæksɪəl|
[f. homo- + Gr. -ταξια (f. τάξις) arrangement + -al1.]
Applied to strata in different regions, having the same relative position with respect to those underlying and overlying them, but not necessarily contemporaneous: cf. homotaxis; also to the fossil remains (usually of similar character) found in such strata.
1870Huxley Anniv. Addr. Geol. Soc. in Q. Jrnl. XXVI. p. xlii, Certain forms of life in one locality occur in the same general order of succession as, or are homotaxial with, similar forms in the other locality. 1888J. Prestwich Geol. II. 4 The homotaxial relations of the groups.
Hence homoˈtaxially adv., in the way of or in relation to homotaxy. Also homoˈtaxeous, homoˈtaxic adjs. = homotaxial.
1866Intell. Observ. No. 56. 97 As homotaxeous, and not as contemporaneous. 1872Nicholson Palæont. (1879) I. 42 The Silurian rocks of Europe, North America, South America, Australia, &c., contain very similar fossils, and are undoubtedly ‘homotaxeous’. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. Introd. 22 The species which constitute the corresponding or homotaxic terms in the series, in different localities, are not identical. 1880Dawkins Early Man 22 note, If..we look at them, homotaxially, from the point of view offered by the European Meiocenes, they are Meiocene. |