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ichthyolite Palæont.|ˈɪkθɪəlaɪt|
[f. as prec. + Gr. λίθος stone: see -lite. Cf. F. icht(h)yolithe (1762 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A fossil fish; any fossil of ichthyic origin.
1828Webster cites E. Hitchcock. 1842H. Miller O.R. Sandst. ix. (ed. 2) 193 The ichthyolites of the Old Red Sandstone. 1850Lyell Princ. Geol. ix. (ed. 8) 134 Similar Ichthyolites have been met with in still older rocks. 1854Page Introd. Geol. 112 The most common ichthyolites in the English tertiaries are the shark-like teeth of gigantic placoids which seem to have thronged these waters.
Hence ichthyoˈlitic a., pertaining to, or characterized by containing, ichthyolites.
1850H. Miller Footpr. Creat. x. (1874) 192, I found it partially embedded..in an ichthyolitic deposit. 1854― Sch. & Schm. xx, The ichthyolitic formations of Moray. |