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encrinite

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encrinite [ˈɛnkrɪˌnaɪt]
n
(Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) (in the US) a sedimentary rock formed almost exclusively from the skeletal plates of crinoids Sometimes shortened to crinite
[from New Latin encrinus (from Greek en-2 + krinon lily) + -ite1]
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Their topics include Lower Cambrian shelled phosphorites from the northern Montaigne Noire in France, Siluro-Devonian alpine reefs and pavements, a late Atokan regional encrinite in the Sierra Agua Verde in northwestern Mexico, and whether the distribution of tabulae in tabulates can be used to estimate palaeo-environmental changes.
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