fossilis

The object of palæontological study is petrefactions (from petros, stone, and facere, to make), or fossils (fossilis, what is buried).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Creator into which He subsequently "breathed the breath of life;" or perhaps "stone-flesh" (caro fossilis) brought into existence, on the dead rocks by the "fertilising air" (aura seminalis), and so forth.

Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

To complete the connection of these primitive people with the fossil ages, the French geologists, we are told, have now "found these axes in Picardy associated with remains of _Elephas primigenius, Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Equus fossilis_, and an extinct species of _Bos_." [

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

I caused a deep excavation to be made, and found nine hatchets, most distinctly in situ in the diluvium, associated with teeth of Equus fossilis and a species of Bos, different from any now living, and similar to that of the diluvium and of caverns. "

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836