fossil

As nouns the difference between fossil and typolite

is that fossil is fossil while typolite is (mineralogy) a stone or fossil bearing impressions of plants and animals.

As nouns the difference between fossil and ichthyolite

is that fossil is fossil while ichthyolite is a fossil of a fish.

As nouns the difference between fossil and receptaculitid

is that fossil is fossil while receptaculitid is (zoology) a probably benthic marine calcareous dasyclad known only from fossils.

As nouns the difference between fossil and zamite

is that fossil is fossil while zamite is (archaic) a fossil cycad of the genus zamia .

As nouns the difference between fossil and paleanthropology

is that fossil is the mineralized remains of an animal or plant while paleanthropology is the scientific study of fossil humans, and the evolution of modern man.

As nouns the difference between fossil and bioclast

is that fossil is fossil while bioclast is (geology) a fossil fragment used to date a rock stratum.

As nouns the difference between fossil and stromatoporoid

is that fossil is fossil while stromatoporoid is any of several fossil aquatic invertebrates, of the order stromatoporoidea , from the silurian and devonian periods.

As nouns the difference between fossil and paleozoology

is that fossil is fossil while paleozoology is (zoology) the branch of zoology dealing with fossils, and the creatures that were transformed into them.

As nouns the difference between fossil and aptychus

is that fossil is the mineralized remains of an animal or plant while aptychus is a marine fossil consisting of a hard anatomical structure like a curved shelly plate, once part of the body of an ammonite.

As nouns the difference between fossil and nummulite

is that fossil is fossil while nummulite is a protozoan from the tertiary period, known only as fossils.