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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Paleon.) A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks.
- (Geol.) an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of
Cauda galli . See the Diagram underGeology .
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