belemniten.
/ˈbɛlɪmnʌɪt/ Palaeontology.
1. A fossil common in rocks of the Secondary formation; a straight, smooth, cylindrical object, a few inches long, convexly tapering to a sharp point, formerly known, from its shape and supposed origin, as thunder-bolt, thunder-stone, elf-bolt, but now recognized as the internal bone of an animal allied to the cuttlefish.
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the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of
astroite1610
belemnite1646
mussel-stone1660
scallop-stone1668
trochite1676
conchite1677
ophiomorphite1677
pectinite1677
worm-stone1677
musculite1681
serpent-stone1681
sugar-plum1681
glossopetraa1684
ague shell1708
forket1708
mytilite1727
grit1748
phytolithus1761
fairy beads1767
fairy fingers1780
fairy arrow1794
gryphite1794
ram's horn1797
hysterolite1799
tubulite1799
thunder-pick1801
celleporite1808
ceraunite1814
seraph1822
serpulite1828
coprolite1829
subfossil1831
pencil1843
trigonellite1845
buccinite1852
rudist1855
guide fossil1867
witch's cradle1867
coccolith1868
fairy cheeses1869
discolith1871
Portland screw1871
spiniferite1872
cyatholith1875
cryptozoon1883
sabellite1889
palaeospecies1895
homoeomorph1898
rudistid1900
megafossil1932
scolecodont1933
macrofossil1937
hystrichosphere1955
palynomorph1961
acritarch1963
molecular fossil1965
mitrate1967
the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > bones (various types of) > fossil
fingerstone1587
belemnite1646
ichthyodorylite1836
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 53 The figures are regular in many other stones, as in the Belemnites . View more context for this quotation
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 41 Meeting by the way with a bed of Belemnites, or (as they call them) Thunder-bolts.
1698 T. Molyneux in G. Boate Nat. Hist. Ireland (1726) 160 One plain homogeneous body, without any mixture of Cochlite, Belemnite,..or such like extraneous matter.
2. The extinct animal to which this belonged.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Belemnitidae > member of
fairy fingers1780
thunder-pick1801
belemnite1833
pencil1843
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 325 The belemnite, one of the cephalopodes not found in any tertiary formation.
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