heliciten.
/ˈhɛlɪsʌɪt/ Geology.
A fossil snail-shell.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > member of > parts of > shell > fossil
helicite1828
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xvi. 7 The same little helicites..are found in layers of three or four feet thick as far inland as Turmero.
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