belemnite battlefield

English

Etymology

After the visual similarity of belemnite fossils to bullet shells.

Noun

belemnite battlefield (plural belemnite battlefields)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, paleontology) A fossil site with an unusually high concentration of belemnite rostra.
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