单词 | ovulite |
释义 | ovuliten. Geology. a. A fossil of ovoidal form and uncertain identity. Obsolete. rare.The principal form bearing the scientific Latin name Ovulites is an Eocene fossil originally supposed to be a foraminiferan but later identified as a calcareous alga. ΚΠ 1836 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 439 Organic remains rarely occur, but Professor Hitchcock thinks he has found ovulites and scyphæ. The fossil, figured as the ovulite, is similar to species found in the clay at Bangor, Maine. Those found at the latter place are more cylindrical, and resemble in form the belemnite. b. A fossil egg. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > [noun] > fossil egg ovulite1849 the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > extinct or fossil > fossil part or egg ornithichnite1836 ovulite1849 1849 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Ovulite, a fossil egg. 1865 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2) 344 Ovulites, a general term for all fossil eggs, whether those of birds or reptiles. Ovulites have been found in the stratified rocks from the Oolite upwards. 2. An ovoidal, usually calcareous or phosphatic grain in a rock. In quot. 1918: spec. = oolith n.The sense in quot. 1847 is uncertain. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > oolite > oolith oolith1788 ovulite1847 oolite1851 ooid1918 1847 Commerc. Rev. South & West Mar. 216 Several mineral[s], such as flints, quartz, calcedony, onyx, ovulites..are successively formed and embedded, or alternated with the pro-eminent strata. 1918 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 26 593 For an individual grain of an oölite the term ‘ovulite’.. appears to be preferable to Kalkowsky's ‘oöid’. 1983 Econ. Geol. 78 123/2 Ovulites are well-rounded to subrounded grains lacking internal structure. 1995 Israel Jrnl. Earth Sci. 44 25 The Ghareb Fm. chalk is dominated by endobenthic buliminids (foraminifera), phosphate ovulites, and bone fragments. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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