HELMINTHOLITHUS, in Natural History, a name given by Linnaeus to petrified bodies resembling worms.
Of these he reckons four genera. 1. Petrified lithophyta. 2. Petrified shells. 3. Petrified zoophytes. 4. Petrified reptiles.
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HELMINTHOLITHUS, in Natural History, a name given by Linnaeus to petrified bodies resembling worms.
Of these he reckons four genera. 1. Petrified lithophyta. 2. Petrified shells. 3. Petrified zoophytes. 4. Petrified reptiles.