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they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.

Arctic hollow-horned ruminant (Ovibos moschatus), now existing only in America, but found fossil in Europe and Asia. It is covered with a thick coat of fine yellowish wool, and with long dark hair, which is abundant and shaggy on the neck and shoulders. The full-grown male weighs over four hundred pounds. -- Musk para…

A fossil nautilus.

t four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranc…

Fossil tracks of annelids.

An extensive genus of fossil ferns, of which species have been found from the Devonian to the Triassic formation.

A Silurian fossil, formerly supposed to consist of eggs.

having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct.

A fossil of the genus Nummulites and allied genera.

A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called bone turquoise.

Of or pertaining to birds; as, ornithic fossils. Owen.

A fossil track resembling that of a bird. Hitchcock.

The fossil remains of a bird.

An orthoceras; also, any fossil shell allied to Orthoceras.

Description of fossils. [Obs.]

A fossil oyster.

A fossil egg.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.

The description of fossil remains.