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Meaning of "baculite" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BACULITE

ˈbækjʊˌlaɪt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BACULITE

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WHAT DOES BACULITE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Baculites

Baculites is an extinct cephalopod genus with a nearly straight shell that is included in the heteromorph ammonites. The genus, which lived worldwide throughout the Late Cretaceous period, was named by Jean Baptiste Lamarck in 1799. A fossil cast of the shell of a Baculites grandis on display at the North American Museum of Ancient Life in Lehi, Utah. The adult shell of Baculites is generally straight and may be either smooth or with sinuous striae or ribbing that typically slant dorso-ventrally forward. The aperture likewise slopes to the front and has a sinuous margin. The venter is narrowly rounded to acute while the dorsum is more broad. The juvenile shell, found at the apex, is coiled in one or two whorls and described as minute, about a centimeter in diameter. Adult Baculites ranged in size from about seven centimeters up to two meters in length. As with other ammonites, the shell consisted of a series of camerae, or chambers, that were connected to the animal by a narrow tube called a siphuncle by which gas content and thereby buoyancy could be regulated in the same manner as Nautilus does today.

Definition of baculite in the English dictionary

The definition of baculite in the dictionary is an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period. Fossils of baculites have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BACULITE

anticellulite · catholyte · cellulite · cimolite · electrolyte · globulite · granulite · gyrolite · ichthyodorulite · lazulite · lowlight · mesolite · microlight · microlite · novaculite · nummulite · serpulite · spherulite · tentaculite · vermiculite

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BACULITE

bacteriostases · bacteriostasis · bacteriostat · bacteriostatic · bacteriostatically · bacteriotoxin · bacterium · bacteriuria · bacterization · bacterize · bacteroid · bacteruria · Bactria · Bactrian · Bactrian camel · bacula · baculiform · baculine · baculovirus · baculum

WORDS THAT END LIKE BACULITE

argillite · Bakelite · communications satellite · crystallite · elite · flite · halite · hoplite · lite · metabolite · ophiolite · polite · power elite · satellite · scheelite · socialite · Stellite · tantalite · thulite · zeolite

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BACULITE»

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On the Aperture of Baculite from the Lower Chalk of ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
George Charles Crick, 2010
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
A crevice representing the original aragonitic shell of the baculite borders one side of the cast. No trace of the opposite side of the baculite can be seen in the phosphate between the baculite and the inoceram. One broken nodule shows a ...
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Echinoderm Paleobiology
During the course of this study, however, baculite impressions were found on both sides of several pieces of Uintacrinus material. The KUMIP slab has three readily apparent baculite molds on its lower side (the upper side is coated in plaster), ...
William Irl Ausich, Gary D. Webster, 2008
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The Red Bird section of the upper Cretaceous Pierre shale in ...
Lateral, ventral, lateral, and dorsal views of a baculite from unit 48 (D1911) showing pits on all surfaces except a small strip along the middle of one of the flanks. USNM 1450S7. 5, 11, 12. Relief at the base of the living chambers of internal ...
James Rogers Gill, William Aubrey Cobban, 1966
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The Philosophical Magazine, Or Annals of Chemistry, ...
that it existed prior to the calcaire grossier and its marls. Every where, in fact, where the baculite limestone is covered, at least to my knowledge, it is evidently so by one of the beds of this latter formation, especially by the concretionary ...
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The Philosophical Magazine
that it existed prior to the caleaire grossier and its marls. Every where, in fact, where the baculite limestone is covered, at least to my knowledge, it is evidently so by one of the beds of this latter formation, especially by the concretionary ...
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A geological manual
Green Sand, Perte du Rhone, Al. Brong. ; Baculite Limestone, Normandy, Desn. ; Rouen; Havre, Pas. ?23. ornithocephala, Sow. Green Sand, Perte du Rhone; M. de Fis, Al. Brong. 24. pectita, Sow. Baculite Limestone, Normandy, Desn.
Henry Thomas De La Beche, 1833
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Philosophical Magazine
M. Desnoyers, in his memoir on that part of Normandy (published in 1825), shows that the newest secondary rock near Valognes is Baculite limestone*, and that it is overlaid by patches of tertiary strata, of the age of the Paris basin ; but he  ...
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A Geographical Manual
25. pectinate, Sow. Baculite Limestone, Normandy, Desn.; Ignaberga, Scania, Nils.; Havre, M. Brong.; Upper Green Sand, Wilts, Meade; Maestricht, Hcen. 26. recurva, Defr. Maestricht; Baculite Limestone, Normandy, Desn. 27. lacvigata, Nils.
Henry Thomas De La Beche, 1832
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Geology and Mineralogy: Considered with Reference to Natural ...
Considered with Reference to Natural Theology William Buckland. Orthoceratite, so we find in the Cretaceous formation alone, the remains of a genus which may be considered as a straight Ammonite. (See PI. 44, Fig. 5.) The Baculite (so ...
William Buckland, 1837

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BACULITE»

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BENEATH OUR FEET: Captivating Ammonites
Ask someone to name an extinct marine invertebrate, and the most common responses might be an ammonite, trilobite, baculite, or crinoid. «Canon City Daily Record, Aug 13»
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No EAS Alert For Colo.'s Most Destructive Fire
The station recently moved its transmitter from Baculite Mesa in Pueblo County to Cheyenne Mountain in El Paso County, 45 miles north. «TV News Check, Jun 13»
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The fossil record: How my family found a home in the West
A baculite found west of Casper, Wyoming, this July. Peggy LeMone. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. When I was a kid, I sometimes wished that my family went ... «High Country News, Oct 12»
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