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What is the noun for palaeontology?

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paleontology
  1. Study of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, especially as represented by fossils.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “However, paleontology as a whole encompasses all life, from bacteria to whales.”
      “Conodonts have been known for almost as long as there has been paleontology, but their peculiar dentition was all that was known of the group.”
      “Although paleontology plays a large role in the novel, Swanwick seems to be more concerned with cause-and-effect, paradoxes, and predeterminism.”
palaeontologist
  1. Alternative spelling of paleontologist
  2. Examples:
    1. “In one refuge cave, a palaeontologist is excavating a Pleistocene tapir skeleton.”
      “What the palaeontologist does for zoology, the prehistorian does for anthropology.”
      “We quickly joined a group led by a palaeontologist who offers a guided tour.”
palaeontology
  1. Alternative spelling of paleontology
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The sixty pages on palaeontology emphasize geology and stratigraphy and chiefly illustrate trilobites.”
      “But there should be some mechanism that protects the rare fossils and the important sites that the science of palaeontology depends upon.”
      “Do we need to expand our theological awareness to incorporate palaeontology a little bit more?”
paleontologist
  1. one who studies paleontology
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    1. “It is unusual to drill an oil well without a paleontologist onsite to determine when the desired oil-bearing rock layer has been reached.”
      “This will be a must for any paleoanthropologist or paleontologist working on fossil primates.”
      “It brings to mind starry-eyed visions of Julius Cohen, paleontologist, plumbing the secrets of the unknown.”
palaeontologists
  1. plural of palaeontologist
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    1. “Apparently, palaeontologists have wondered for years as to why the brachiosaurus didn't collapse under its own weight.”
      “He taught and supervised the work of an entire generation of Chinese stratigraphers and palaeontologists.”
      “He is a third-generation Kenyan whose parents won fame as palaeontologists and archaeologists focusing on the search for the origins of human life.”
paleontologists
  1. plural of paleontologist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Now a team of paleontologists has found a fossilized arthropod they're betting is an early member of the subphylum Crustacea.”
      “We're going to talk with one of the paleontologists behind the dino autopsy right as soon as we come back.”
      “Some paleontologists do study the fossil record of humans and their relatives.”
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