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Definition of Palaeozoology
1. Noun. The study of fossil animals.
Specialized synonyms: Paleomammalogy, Palaeornithology, Paleornithology
Generic synonyms: Palaeobiology, Paleobiology, Zoological Science, Zoology
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palaeozoology
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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