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rhyncholite Geol.|ˈrɪŋkəlaɪt| [f. Gr. ῥύγχος beak, snout + λίθος stone, -lite.] A fossilized beak of a tetrabranchiate cephalopod.
1836Buckland Geol. & Min. xv. §3 (1837) I. 319 Fossil bodies called Rhyncholites, or beak-stones. 1851Woodward Mollusca 81 Calcarious mandibles or rhyncholites (F. Biguet) have been obtained from all the strata in which nautili occur. 1863Dana Man. Geol. 455. |