prefossilized

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ fossilized

Adjective

prefossilized (not comparable)

1. Fossilized earlier than surrounding material.
   • 2007 May 24, Edward Rothstein, “Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The kind of fantasy that doesn’t care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of years?

Related terms

• prefossilization