Look up: belemnite

1. Belemnite
   Belemnites meaning darts or javelins) were squid-like cephalopods that evolved during the Carboniferous period (roughly 345 to 280 million years ago); they went extinct 65 million years ago during the K-T extinction . They are common fossils, especially in Jurassic and Cretaceous period sediment, an...
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2. belemnite
   [n] - a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae
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3. Belemnite
   Be·lem'nite noun [ Greek ... dart, from ... dart, from ... to throw: confer French bélemnite .] (Paleon.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other en...
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4. belemnite
   <paleontology> A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the...
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5. belemnite
   noun a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae
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6. Belemnite
   • (n.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunders...
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7. Belemnite
   Belemnites are extinct, squid-like molluscs of the Cephalopoda class with a bullet-shaped internal shell. Fossils are found from the Upper Carboniferous period to the Eocene epoch. The fossils are straight, solid, tapering and dart-shaped, and were formerly popularly known as arrow-heads, thunderbolts, finger-stones, etc.
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