Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Graptolithus .
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- noun Plural form of
graptolite .
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Examples
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They date back to the Lower or Middle Cambrian and include an important class of fossils called graptolites, most of which became extinct in the Carboniferous. condividi - cerca i tuoi siti preferiti -
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Among the most remarkable of the tiny fossilized creatures Mr. Zalasiewicz excises from the stone are graptolites — an entirely extinct variety of oceanic drifters that formed intricate, communal chains.
Rock of Ages Brian Switek 2011
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The Permian extinction, 244 million years ago, devastated the marine biota: tabulate and rugose corals, blastoid echinoderms, graptolites, and most crinoids died out, as did the last of the trilobites.
Paleozoic 2009
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Later Paleozoic seas were dominated by crinoid and blastoid echinoderms, articulate brachiopods, graptolites, and tabulate and rugose corals.
Paleozoic 2009
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The foundries and factories had been working at full capacity for years, manufacturing exquisitely detailed ammonites, graptolites and molluscs by the million.
Here is the Weather Forecast Zoe Brain 2007
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The foundries and factories had been working at full capacity for years, manufacturing exquisitely detailed ammonites, graptolites and molluscs by the million.
Archive 2007-04-01 Zoe Brain 2007
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The presence of Trilobites (species Triarthrus) and graptolites indicate that this ecosystem existed in the Upper Permian, 213 million years ago.
Archive 2004-03-01 Andrew 2004
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The presence of Trilobites (species Triarthrus) and graptolites indicate that this ecosystem existed in the Upper Permian, 213 million years ago.
worlds in a grain of sand Andrew 2004
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Trilobites, ammonites, crinoids, graptolites and brachiopods are among some of the fossils that can be found in this area.
Archive 2004-03-01 Andrew 2004
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Trilobites, ammonites, crinoids, graptolites and brachiopods are among some of the fossils that can be found in this area.
worlds in a grain of sand Andrew 2004
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