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The branch of archeology that studies fossil organisms and related remains
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palaeontology
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Because of his interests in vertebrate palaeontology , bones were his especial interest. ▪ Each of these universities has produced published research in geography, geology, palaeontology , and geophysics. ▪ Fossils fascinate ...
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n. the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains [syn: paleontology , fossilology ]
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n. (alternative spelling of paleontology English)
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Palaeontology is one of the two scientific journals of the Palaeontological Association (the other being Papers in Palaeontology ). It was established in 1957 and is published on behalf of the Association by Wiley-Blackwell . The editor-in-chief is Andrew ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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palaeontology \palaeontology\ n. The branch of archeology that studies fossil organisms and related remains. Syn: paleontology, fossilology.
Usage examples of palaeontology.
Palaeontology also claimed his attention, and he described in 1831 and later years a number of Cephalopods, Brachiopods and Cystidea, and pointed out their stratigraphical importance.
And he compared the findings of stratigraphy, palaeontology and physical geography to identify three separate eras with three distinct forms of life.
There were precisely three really good jobs for dinosaur specialists in Canada: Chief of the Paleobiology Division at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Curator of Paleobiology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and Curator of Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta.
Palaeontology it will be seen that very few species are known from several formations in Europe.
No mechanism was known for continental drift (now subsumed in plate tectonics) when it was proposed by Alfred Wegener in the first quarter of the twentieth century to explain a range of puzzling data in geology and palaeontology.
On the other hand, all the chief laws of palaeontology plainly proclaim, as it seems to me, that species have been produced by ordinary generation: old forms having been supplanted by new and improved forms of life, produced by the laws of variation still acting round us, and preserved by Natural Selection.