Word.ws English Dictionary

rhynchonella

rhynchonella noun: any member of the extinct genus †Rhynchonella of brachiopod, found in Silurian to Eocene strata worldwide.

Noun

rhynchonella (plural rhynchonellas)

  1. Any member of the extinct genus †Rhynchonella of brachiopod, found in Silurian to Eocene strata worldwide.
    • It is quite possible that the Maine rhynchonellas described as R. aspasia by Billings were descended from some one of these earlier rhynchonellas not yet separated into special (literary) groups.1900, Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey
    • The material from Mejdel Shems includes a few pyritized ammonites (Nos. 5336-5339) and a couple of non-pyritized rhynchonellas (Nos. 5340-5341), all of Jurassic age.1905, William Libbey, Franklin Evans Hoskins, The Jordan Valley and Petra - Volume 2, page 353

Examples of rhynchonella in a sentence

  • Of the fossils which occur in great numbers, rhynchonellas, spirifers, and encrinites are common.1912, Geological Survey of New South Wales, Mineral Resources - Issues 15-20, page 59:
  • One of the most important of recent discoveries is that of the rhynchonella fossil in tubicolar sandstones at the Thistle Mine near Lorinna.1919, Geological Survey Bulletin - Issue 30, page 34:

Forms of rhynchonella

pluralrhynchonellas

Origin of rhynchonella

From the genus name.

Questions about rhynchonella

What does rhynchonella mean?
Rhynchonella means any member of the extinct genus †Rhynchonella of brachiopod, found in Silurian to Eocene strata worldwide.
How do you use rhynchonella in a sentence?
Of the fossils which occur in great numbers, rhynchonellas, spirifers, and encrinites are common.
What part of speech is rhynchonella?
Rhynchonella is a noun.
What is the plural of rhynchonella?
The plural of rhynchonella is rhynchonellas.

Words near rhynchonella in the dictionary

  1. rhynchodipterids
  2. rhynchokinesis
  3. rhynchokinetic
  4. rhyncholite
  5. rhyncholites
  6. rhynchonella
  7. rhynchonellas
  8. rhynchonellatan
  9. rhynchonellate
  10. rhynchonellates
  11. rhynchonellid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rhynchonella (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rhynchonella.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rhynchonella. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.