Definitions

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  • Same as paleontological.

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  • adjective Pertaining to paleontology, characteristic of paleontology.

Etymologies

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paleontology +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • Mayr made a lot of field work in New Guinea as ornitologist and taxonomist, and Gould not only studied and described thousands of fossils but discovered new paleontologic sites of primary importance.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • They're simply based strictly on empirical evidences, * including* the accumulated paleontologic and genetic data on hand, and of course, rational unbiased thought.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Analysis of stratigraphic and paleontologic data including fossil identifications, depending upon the specific expertise of the successful applicant

    Archive 2008-12-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Although fossils from the Las Vegas Formation are abundant, paleontologic studies of this amazing assemblage are still in the early stages.

    Archive 2008-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Analysis of stratigraphic and paleontologic data including fossil identifications, depending upon the specific expertise of the successful applicant

    Another job! ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Although fossils from the Las Vegas Formation are abundant, paleontologic studies of this amazing assemblage are still in the early stages.

    Tule Springs Ice Age Park Development ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Some years ago one of your Secretaries pointed out another kind of positive paleontologic evidence tending towards the same conclusion — afforded by the existence of what he termed

    Essays 2007

  • Among its fundamental conceptions, there must be no confusion between what is certain and what is more or less probable. 65 But, pending the construction of a surer foundation than paleontology now possesses, it may be instructive, assuming for the nonce the general correctness of the ordinary hypothesis of geological contemporaneity, to consider whether the deductions which are ordinarily drawn from the whole body of paleontologic facts are justifiable.

    Essays 2007

  • And they have extraordinarily fascinating paleontologic evidence to show how this happened?

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • My paleontologic specialty is extinct Arthropoda and Mygalomorphae.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

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