English
wikipedia|Belemnoidea
Noun
en-noun
- context|paleontology An extinct group of Mesozoic marine cephalopod, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related to the modern cuttlefish.
Quotations
1895 � w:H. H. Wells|H. G. Wells, s:The Time Machine|The Time Machine, ch VIII
:In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries. It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.
Synonyms
belemnoid
Related terms
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