dactylose

Definitions

Finger-like.

Examples

“Distinguished by its elongated dactylose form⟳, and by the bold longitudinally striped pattern of the epidermis.”

“It consists of a little calcareous cylindrical column, about one tenth of an inch in height, attached by a dactylose base⟳, and surmounted by an expansion in the form⟳ of a reversed cone, the margin of whose wide end⟳ is extended into several radiating arms, which, like⟳ the rest⟳ of the fossil, are entirely calcareous.”

“In front of them on the ventral surface is a pair of short dactylose processes, bluntly rounded at their tips; the abdomen is lacking.”

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