baculite

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baculite - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Baculite \Bac"u*lite\, n. [L. baculum stick, staff; cf. F.
     baculite.] (Paleon.)
     A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil
     in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.
     [1913 Webster]