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Definition of Guide fossil
1. Noun. A fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guide Fossil
Literary usage of Guide fossil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1904)
"It is, therefore, not only a useful guide-fossil, but an interesting example of
constancy in choice of habitat. So much, then, for the guide-fossils. ..."
2. Stratigraphy and Correlation of the Devonian of Western Tennessee by Carl Owen Dunbar (1919)
"A New Scotland "guide" fossil confined to the Birdsong member of the Linden. ...
A New Scotland "guide" fossil confined to the upper portion of the Birdsong ..."
3. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1908)
"The disadvantage of its employment as a guide fossil is that it is not restricted
to the zone in question ; but after all that objection is not a very ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.) (1908)
"... is another guide-fossil common to the Middle Oamaru Series and the 1 Trail*.
I!. Dnl.l. Soc., ser. ii., vol. iv., 1S»S, |.. -Jii. |,l. i\.. fix-. }•:<. ..."
5. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1919)
"... throughout the Appalachian Valley, and as specimens are usually common, this
species is regarded as such an exceptionally valuable guide fossil that the ..."
6. Proceedings by Geologists' Association (1878)
"In addition to that ubiquitous echinoderm, a well- chosen guide fossil, are found,
the same ammonite (better characterised) and nautilus as in the Red Chalk ..."
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