Definition of Palaeozoology

1. Noun. The study of fossil animals.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Palaeozoology

palaeosol
palaeosols
palaeospinothalamic
palaeosubduction
palaeosubductions
palaeotemperature
palaeotemperatures
palaeothermometer
palaeothermometers
palaeothermometry
palaeotropical
palaeotropics
palaeovirus
palaeoxylology
palaeozoologist
palaeozoology (current term)
palaestra
palaestrae
palaestras
palaestric
palaetiologist
palaetiologists
palaetiology
palagi
palagis
palagonite
palagonitic
palais
palama
palamae

Literary usage of Palaeozoology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"... notably Princeton and the Carnegie Museum, have naturally brought into a new Hght some of the important general principles of palaeozoology. ..."

2. The Making of the World by Max Wilhelm Meyer (1906)
"palaeozoology. . Landscape from the Carboniferous Period. 18. ... Museum, after Zittel, palaeozoology. 22. Petrified Leaves, found in Spitzbergen, ..."

3. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1881)
"NICHOLSON steadily continues his laborious researches in palaeozoology, ... Hence an immense amount of work remains to be done before palaeozoology has ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"More seriously we may ask how, if life is ever arising anew, we can explain the law of both palaeobotany and palaeozoology that if a species dies out it ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... treating of fossil plants, and palaeozoology (t*?or, animal), treating of extinct animals. Historical Summary.—Even in antiquity fossil marine animals ..."

6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1906)
"While, therefore, the National Collection is invaluable from a zoological point of view, it is practically valueless for Evolutional palaeozoology. ..."

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