ichthyolite

American  

[ik-thee-uh-lahyt] / ˈɪk θi əˌlaɪt /

noun

1. a fossil fish.

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ichthyolite British  

/ ˌɪkθɪəˈlɪtɪk, ˈɪkθɪəˌlaɪt /

noun

1. rare any fossil fish

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Other Word Forms

• ichthyolitic adjective

Etymology

Origin of ichthyolite

First recorded in 1820–30; ichthyo- + -lite

Example Sentences

We find ichthyolite remains in the flagstones laid bare along the way-side,—in every heap of road-metal,—in the bottom of every stream,—in almost every cottage and fence.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

I found at Clune no ichthyolite to which the geologists have not been already introduced, or with which I had not been acquainted previously in the Cromarty beds.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

He had evidently seen, long ere it had been detected by the scientific eye, that strange ichthyolite of the Old Red system, the Cephalaspis.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

The ichthyolite beds appear in the course of the burn.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

I have seen the ichthyolite bed where they were as thickly covered with fossil remains as I have ever seen a fishing-bank covered with herrings.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir