Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of polythalamous or many-chambered cephalopods, belonging to the family Ammonitidæ.

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  • noun Plural form of baculite.

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Examples

  • I e-mailed her a reference from the book to baculites, marine cephalopod fossils, with surface fractal patterns.

    Prairiemary, Blackfeet and Fossil Legends 2006

  • I e-mailed her a reference from the book to baculites, marine cephalopod fossils, with surface fractal patterns.

    Archive 2006-06-01 2006

  • He finds it amazing to think that baculites might be the most common fossils in Montana, but few Montanans have ever seen one.

    billingsgazette.com 2009

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