baculite


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baculite

[′bak·yə‚līt]
(geology)
A crystallite that looks like a dark rod.
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The word has the same root as Bacillus (a genus of bacterium) and Baculites (a genus of extinct marine "shellfish"), which have rod-like shapes.
The Walrus and the journalist
This particular specimen, of the genus Baculites, dates to between 70 million and 83 million years ago.
An ammonite's last supper
Para el Coniaciano plantea las zonas de amonitas de Barroisiceras subtuberculatum, Paralenticeras-Eulophoceras, Subprionotropis columbianus, "Gauthericeras" sp., Baculites inornatus, Hauericeras-Peroniceras; y las zonas de bivalvos de Mytiloides striatoconcentricus, Mytiloides dresdensis, Cremnoceramus rotundatus, Sergipia y Dydimotis.
Sucesion de amonitas del cretacico superior (Cenomaniano--Coniaciano) de la parte mas alta de la formacion hondita y de la formacion loma gorda en la quebrada Bambuca, Aipe--Huila (Colombia, S. A.)
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