eozoön

See also: eozoon

English

Alternative forms

• eozoon

Noun

eozoön (plural eozoöns or eozoa)

1. (paleontology, dated) A pseudofossil with banded structures of coarsely crystalline calcite and serpentine.

Related terms

• Eozoic
• eozoonal

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “eozoön”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)