trochiten.
/ˈtrɒkʌɪt//ˈtrəʊkʌɪt/ Palaeontology. Now rare or Obsolete.
A name for the detached wheel-like joints of encrinites: = entrochite n., entrochus n.
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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
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > division Pelmatozoa > class Crinoidea > fossil or encrinite > wheel-like joint or entrochite
entrochus1661
trochite1676
entrochite1681
stelechite1681
stelentrochite1681
wheel-stone1846
1676 J. Beaumont in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 726 One Trochite..has round inlets or sockets.
1815 W. Phillips Outl. Mineral. & Geol. (1818) 141 Transition Limestone..contains petrifactions of marine animals, as corallites, encrinites, pentacrinites, entrochites, and trochites.
1853 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. III. xxxii. 391 A heap of turbinites and trochites.
Derivatives
trochitic adj. /trəʊˈkɪtɪk/ rare of the nature of or pertaining to a trochite or trochites.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
/trəʊˈkɪtɪk/ rare of the nature of or pertaining to a trochite or trochites.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [adjective] > types of
rayed1713
coprolitic1829
belemnitic1847
goniatitic1884
trochitic1891
heterochronous1895
Ediacarian1972
ceratitic1976
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [adjective] > belonging to or characteristic of Pelmatozoa > of or relating to Crinoidea > of or relating to wheel-like joint
trochitic1891
1891 in Cent. Dict.
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