fluviatile

• Only among certain types, which diverged at an early epoch from the ancestral stock and took to a fluviatile or estuarine life, did vestiges of the armour persist, while the dorsal fin remained undeveloped (Neophocaena). —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• This is a well indurated fluviatile quartz arenite. —  Qwaider Planet
• If, in the first place, the bed contain the remains of animals such as now inhabit rivers, we know that it is "fluviatile" in its origin, and that it must at one time have either formed an actual riverbed, or been deposited by the overflowing of an ancient stream. —  The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science
• Many of these fluviatile (Lat. —  The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science
• These are recent fluviatile or alluvial deposits. —  The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science

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