paleontological

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to paleontology or to the study of life in the geological past through fossils

   Paleontological evidence places the species in a much earlier geological period.

Formed from paleontology + -ical. Paleontology combines Greek palaios, 'ancient,' on, ontos, 'being,' and -logia, 'study.' The British spelling palaeontological retains the ae of palaeo-; American spelling usually reduces it to e.

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