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Palaeontology

noun
1.
The earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains.  Synonyms: fossilology, paleontology.



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"Palaeontology" Quotes from Famous Books



... the science of the monuments of antiquity, as distinct from palaeontology, which has to do with extinct ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... Puy and investigating the site of the alleged discovery, was satisfied that the fossil bones belonged to the period of the last volcanic eruptions of Velay; but expressly stated in his important treatise on palaeontology that this conclusion, though it might imply that Man had co-existed with the extinct elephant, did not draw with it the admission that the human race was anterior in date to the filling of the caverns of France and Belgium with the bones of extinct mammalia.* ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell


Words linked to "Palaeontology" :   frill, palaeontologist, human palaeontology, vertebrate paleontology, micropaleontology, palaeontological, paleobiology, palaeobiology, fossilology, earth science, paleontology


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