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Sentence Examples
The belemnites sampled in this study were mostly translucent and retained the primary concentric banding that characterizes belemnite rostra.
Belemnite hooks are commonly found in the fossilized stomachs of marine reptiles that preyed upon them, such as ichthyosaurs.
Examples from Classical Literature
Here is a piece of belemnite in limestone, and the fracture in the fossil presents the usual glistening planes of cleavage.
The ink-bags of the belemnite also are sometimes preserved, and we see how it could balk a pursuer by darkening the waters.
The wonderful shell-fishes of the Ammonite group, and the cuttle-fishes of the belemnite type, share the same fate.
The very form of the belemnite at once suggests the notion of a dart or lance-head, which has gained for it its scientific name.
De Montfort's figure of this genus appears as if it had been drawn from the nucleus of a belemnite.
As a genus it holds a place intermediate between the Cuttle-fish and the belemnite.
They are dark marly bands, in which a belemnite, Actinocamax plenus, is found.
It is the fossil commonly called the belemnite, or finger-stone, and now known to be a shell.
The standard was Pee Dee Belemnite limestone for carbon isotopes and atmospheric nitrogen for nitrogen isotopes.
Nitrogen is referenced to atmospheric nitrogen and carbon to the Pee Dee Belemnite standard.
It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.
