cauda galli

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cauda galli - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cauda galli \Cau"da gal*li\, . [L., tail of a cock.] (Paleon.)
     A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed,
     characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda
     galli grit.
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     Cauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the
        Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the
        characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of
        Cauda galli. See the Diagram under Geology.
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