paleon.

American  

abbreviation

1. paleontology.

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Example Sentences

One of the early helpers at the Paleon Museum in Glenrock straightened and looked at him with steely blue eyes.

From Washington Times

“If you go to Glenrock today, visit the Paleon Museum, and are up for a little hike, you can see the prints just like I did.”

From Washington Times

His discovery led to the skull’s excavation and the eventual creation of the Paleon Museum to house the fossil.

From Washington Times

It was at a summer Paleon Museum dig years later that a 13-year-old Scott Persons visited and became more fully convinced - despite laboring under the hot Wyoming sun - that he would pursue paleontology as a lifetime profession.

From Washington Times

The main paleon­tological indications of the nature of the early bacteria have come not from the individual microfossils but from the macroscopic structures called stromat­olites, which are thought to be fossil­ized bacterial mats: colonies of bacteria embedded with minerals.

From Scientific American