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n. - Large fossil protozoan of the Tertiary period.

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  • The nummulite rock, in the vicinity of those monuments, frequently presents a conglomerate of testacea imbedded in it, which, in some positions, resemble small seeds;...
  • Here and there, at Carmel and Gerizim, patches of the tertiary nummulite of
  • This limestone wave was shown to be one of a great series, running parallel with the Alps, and constituting an undulatory district, chiefly composed of chalk beds, separated...
  • Limestone, at Rotas, i. 40; nummulite, ii. 266, 346; of Churra, ii.
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