Definition of Palaeontological

1. Adjective. Of or relating to paleontology.

Exact synonyms: Paleontological
Partainyms: Palaeontology, Paleontology
Derivative terms: Palaeontology, Paleontology

Definition of Palaeontological

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of paleontological) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palaeontological

palaeoichthyologists
palaeoichthyology
palaeolatitude
palaeolatitudes
palaeolatitudinal
palaeolithic
palaeology
palaeolongitude
palaeolongitudes
palaeomagnetic
palaeomagnetically
palaeomagnetism
palaeomagnetist
palaeontography
palaeontologic
palaeontological (current term)
palaeontologist
palaeontologists
palaeontology
palaeopathologist
palaeopathologists
palaeopathology
palaeopedology
palaeopolyploidization
palaeopolyploidizations
palaeorecord
palaeoregolith
palaeornithology
palaeosalinities
palaeosalinity

Literary usage of Palaeontological

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

1. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"Knowledge and Belief.—History of Creation and History of Development.—The Connection between the History of Individual and palaeontological Development. ..."

2. Geology: Chemical, Physical, and Stratigraphical by Joseph Prestwich (1888)
"With this formation great palaeontological changes were inaugurated. All the species, a considerable number of the genera, and many of the families, ..."

3. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1898)
"THE METHODS OF palaeontological INQUIRY. WB SCOTT. IT is one of the misfortunes connected with the vastly expanded knowledge of nature which characterizes ..."

4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1898)
"</) Notes on general results obtained from a palaeontological survey of numerous outcrops in the counties of Colchester, Cumberland, Pictou, Antigonish, ..."

5. North American Geology and Palæontology for the Use of Amateurs, Students by Samuel Almond Miller (1889)
"... geological, and palaeontological information. There is no such geological period, and no gap into which it can possibly be injected. CHAPTER XXXIX. ..."

6. Experimental Evolution: Lectures Delivered in the "Summer School of Art and by Henry de Varigny (1892)
"Naudin (Revue Horticole,) anticipates the Natural Selection Theory—General Proofs of Evolution : palaeontological, Embryological, Morphological—These Proofs ..."

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