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encrinite
encrinite Zool. and Geol. (ˈɛnkrɪnaɪt) [f. encrin-us + -ite.] A fossil crinoid; formerly sometimes extended to crinoids generally.1808 Parkinson Organ. Rem. II. 153 (in Rees). 1819 Rees Cycl., Encrinites, a kind of columnar extraneous or organized fossil. 1835 Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. xiii. 10 A...
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Encrinite
Encrinites are a type of grain-supported bioclastic sedimentary rock in which all or most of the grains are crinoid ossicles. In older literature, the word is sometimes used to refer to individual fossil crinoids, but this usage is obsolete. Distribution
Encrinites form in areas where disaggregated ...
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encrinitic
encrinitic, a. Geol. (ɛnkrɪˈnɪtɪk) [f. encrinite + -ic.] Containing fossil Encrinites.1863 Cambrian Jrnl. Sept. 154 The carbonate shell marble of South Wales, and the encrinitic of North Wales. 1864 in Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. IX. 482 The metamorphosis of encrinitic limestone.
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encrinital
encrinital, a. Geol. (ɛnkrɪˈnaɪtəl) [f. encrinite + -al1.] 1. Of or pertaining to, or having the character of, Encrinites.1847 Ansted Anc. World viii. 177 Living chiefly on the crabs, lobsters, and shell-fish, or on the encrinital animals. 1875 J. Croll Climate & T. xviii. 298 Encrinital fragments i...
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Brassfield Formation
In Ohio, where the unit has escaped dolomitization, the Brassfield is an encrinite biosparite with numerous crinoid species.
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encrinoid
encrinoid, a. Geol. (ˈɛnkrɪnɔɪd) [f. encrin-us + -oid.] Resembling an Encrinite.1841–71 T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 179 An Encrinoid Echinoderm in its perfect condition.
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A New Trilobite (Ceratocephala ceralepta) (1838)
Fossil Encrinite (1838)
Description of a New Fossil (Calymene Bucklandii) (1839)
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apiocrinite
apiocrinite Palæont. (æpɪˈɒkrɪnaɪt) [mod. f. Gr. ἄπι-ον pear + κρίν-ον lily + -ite, after encrinite.] The ‘pear-encrinite,’ a stalked echinoderm of the Oolite, so called from its shape.1830 Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. iii. xlviii. 580 A crinoid referable to the Apiocrinite type. 1851 Richardson Ge...
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Craig y Forwyn (Conwy)
This bears impressions of fossil plants including Lepidodendron, Poacites resembling leaves, and Encrinite.
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Encrinus
‖ Encrinus Zool. (ˈɛnkrɪnəs) Also 8 encrinos. [mod.L., f. Gr. ἐν in + κρίνον lily. The word was invented by Harenberg (1729) as a name for a fossil which two years before he had proposed to call a ‘stone lily’.] 1. † A name formerly applied generally to fossil crinoids; = encrinite (obs.). b. Now th...
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Rotzo Formation
the Carbonate Platform, being located over the Trento Platform and surrounded by the Massone Oolite (marginal calcarenitic bodies), the Fanes Piccola Encrinite
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crinoid
crinoid, a. (n.) Zool. (ˈkrɪnɔɪd, kraɪ-) [ad. Gr. κρινοειδής lily-like. As a n. the latinized plural forms crinoidea, crinoida are used in Zool.] A. adj. Lily-shaped; applied to an order (chiefly fossil) of echinoderms, having a calyx-like body, stalked and rooted. B. n. A member of this order.1836 ...
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crinite
▪ I. crinite, a. (ˈkraɪnaɪt) [ad. L. crīnīt-us hairy, f. crīnis hair.] Hairy; having a hairy or hairlike appendage; spec. in Bot. and Zool. having tufts of hairy growth on the surface.1600 Fairfax Tasso xiv. xliv, How comate, crinite, caudate starres are fram'd I knew. 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. 2...
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pentacrinite
pentacrinite Palæont. (pɛnˈtækrɪnaɪt) [f. mod.L. (Oken 1815) Pentacrin-us ‘sea-lily’ (f. Gr. πεντα- five + κρίνον lily) + -ite1 2 a.] An encrinite or fossil crinoid of the genus Pentacrinus or family Pentacrinidæ, having a pentagonal column.1818 W. Phillips Outl. Min. & Geol. (ed. 3) 141 Petrifactio...
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pelvis
‖ pelvis Anat. and Zool. (ˈpɛlvɪs) Pl. pelves (ˈpɛlviːz). [L. pelvis basin, laver; the anatomical sense is mod.L.] 1. The basin-shaped cavity formed (in most vertebrates) by the right and left haunch-bones or ossa innominata (consisting of the ilium, ischium, and pubis, on each side) together with t...
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