belemnite

Before she can puzzle this out any further, her parents return from their walk, having found a "whole belemnite, whatever that is".

Like some modern squid, belemnite arms carried a series of small hooks for grabbing prey.

Neohibolithes is a genus of belemnite from the Cretaceous.

Megateuthis gigantea is the largest known belemnite species.

Nannobelus is a genus of belemnite, an extinct group of cephalopods.

She also discovered that belemnite fossils contained fossilised ink sacs like those of modern cephalopods.

Belemnotheutis is not a 'true' belemnite (suborder Belemnitina) but a closely related coleoid.

Fossils of belemnite have been used as an international standard to define the normal isotope abundance of C12 and C13.

The Cretaceous belemnite Belemnitella americana is the Delaware state fossil.

The conical shell is suggestive of belemnite phragmocones and of its possible ancestry to Eobelemites.

Owen had failed to acknowledge that the belemnite had been discovered by Chaning Pearce, an amateur biologist, four years earlier.

The belemnite in the soil allows it to absorb heat from the sun and gradually release it during the night as well as providing good drainage.

Belemnitella bulbosa is a species of belemnite from the Late Cretaceous of North America.

Notable cephalopods of Cretaceous Delaware included the swift swimming belemnite Belemnitella americana.

The next day Jess falls ill, and her Mum, concerned, gives her the belemnite she found, which Jess does not appreciate - ")Oh wow.

Subsoil No vines are planted on the alluvial soils close to the river, but on nearby higher ground Belemnite chalk can be seen as the major subsoil.

Glauconitic limestone is dark green and phosphatic limestone is buff and there are belemnite fragments and a prominent vertical burrow.

Pachyteuthis is a genus of belemnite that lived from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, and has been found in Asia and Europe.

It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.

Earthquakes that rocked the region over 10 million years ago pushed the marine sediments of belemnite fossils up to the surface to create the belemnite chalk terrain.

They often contains fossils such as the ammonites Schloenbachia, Scaphites, and Mantelliceras, the belemnite Actinocamax, and the bivalves Inoceramus and Ostrea.

The Catalan Bay Shale Formation contains unidentifiable echinoid spines and belemnite fragments and infrequent Early Jurassic (Middle Lias) ammonites.

Elsewhere in the fossil record, bullet-shaped belemnite guards are locally found in such profusion that such deposits are referred to semi-formally as "belemnite battlefields" (cf.

In addition, about 2350 belemnite guards (including those of Cylindroteuthis) have been recovered from Lower Cretaceous formations of northeastern Greenland, suggesting the presence of a sort of "immigration route" for belemnites.

MAILLY: Complex structure of interbedded subsoils: Belemnite and two forms of Micraster chalks, calcareous-silty deposits, fine gravelly beds, colluvial clay and ferrous-brown calcareous clay.