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Definition of Graptolites
1. graptolite [n] - See also: graptolite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graptolites
Literary usage of Graptolites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"GS The authors note that the number of stipes possessed by graptolites has been
looked upon as a character of prime importance, many genera being based on ..."
2. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"graptolites. — This group will be discussed more fully in the next chapter (p.
... graptolites were slender organisms, plant- like in appearance, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society by Liverpool Geological Society (1874)
"The following communications were read:— ON SOME graptolites FROM THE UPPER ARENIG
... These dendroid graptolites, with the same, or nearly allied species, ..."
4. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"graptolites. — This group will be discussed more fully in the next chapter (p.
... graptolites appear for the first time in the Upper Cambrian. Jellyfish. ..."
5. Chemical and Geological Essays by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1875)
"They were new forms, it is true, but the horizon of the graptolites, ... Up to
1856 no other organic remains than the graptolites and the two species of ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1905)
"The small collection of graptolites here dealt with was found by Mr. EO Thiele
... graptolites of about the same horizon have been known for some years to ..."
7. A Bibliography of Protozoa, Sponges, Coelenterata, and Worms: Including Also by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1885)
"[570 NICHOLSON, HA Note on the Distribution in Time of the various British Species
and Genera of graptolites. Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. Ser. ..."
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