unguliten.
/ˈʌŋɡjʊlʌɪt/ Palaeontology.
A Palæozoic brachiopod, the obolus. ungulite grit n. see obolite n.
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1850 D. T. Ansted Elem. Course Geol. §980 A sandstone, or grit, distinguished by a remarkable fossil (the Ungulite) unknown in Western Europe.
1850 D. T. Ansted Elem. Course Geol. Alphabet. Index 583/1 Ungulite grit.
1859 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) xiv. 374 The little horny brachiopod, the Obolus or Ungulite, is so much more abundant than any other fossil, as to have induced Pander to give to the rock the name of Ungulite grit.
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