Tentaculites

noun

Ten·​tac·​u·​li·​tes

: a genus of small conical fossil shells found abundantly in some Paleozoic rocks and often made the type of the family Tentaculitidae

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from tentaculum + -ites

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