单词 | discolith |
释义 | discolithn. Biology. Any coccolith with a more or less discoid shape, often with a thickened or elevated rim surrounding a central area which may be perforated (cf. cyatholith n.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of astroite1610 belemnite1646 mussel-stone1660 scallop-stone1668 trochite1676 conchite1677 ophiomorphite1677 pectinite1677 worm-stone1677 musculite1681 serpent-stone1681 sugar-plum1681 glossopetraa1684 ague shell1708 forket1708 mytilite1727 grit1748 phytolithus1761 fairy beads1767 fairy fingers1780 fairy arrow1794 gryphite1794 ram's horn1797 hysterolite1799 tubulite1799 thunder-pick1801 celleporite1808 ceraunite1814 seraph1822 serpulite1828 coprolite1829 subfossil1831 pencil1843 trigonellite1845 buccinite1852 rudist1855 guide fossil1867 witch's cradle1867 coccolith1868 fairy cheeses1869 discolith1871 Portland screw1871 spiniferite1872 cyatholith1875 cryptozoon1883 sabellite1889 palaeospecies1895 homoeomorph1898 rudistid1900 megafossil1932 scolecodont1933 macrofossil1937 hystrichosphere1955 palynomorph1961 acritarch1963 molecular fossil1965 mitrate1967 1868 T. H. Huxley in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 8 206 I find that two distinct kinds of bodies have been described by myself and others under the name of coccoliths. I shall term one kind Discolithus, and the other Cyatholithus.] 1871 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 11 62 Haeckel points out that there are circular discoliths as well as oval ones, which alone were described by Huxley..[and] that the cyatholiths are simply two discoliths united by an axial piece. 1973 N.Z. Jrnl. Geol. & Geophysics 16 71 Natural groupings within the coccolithophorids sensu stricto are reflected..by the major types of coccolith they produce (e.g. caneoliths, discoliths, placoliths, etc.) during the nonmotile phase of their life cycle. 1985 G. Bignot Elements Micropalaeontol. (1994) vii. 73 (caption) Living coccolithophore (Syracosphaera). Flagellate stage with coccosphere formed from two types of coccoliths: normal discoliths with a flat base and ‘buccal’ discoliths with a central stem. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1871 |
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