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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
palaeontology /ˌpalɪɒnˈtɒlədʒi, ˌpeɪ-/ (US paleontology)

▶noun the branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants.

– derivatives
palaeontological adjective,
palaeontologist noun.

– origin C19: from palaeo- + Gk onta ‘beings’ + -logy.

'palaeontology' also found in these Oxford entries:

ammonite - archosaur - ceratite - ceratopsian - conodont - coprolite - corallite - goniatite - nummulite - ornithischian - phytolith - saurischian - scandent - taphonomy - thecodont - therapsid

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