NUMMULITE  , NtTh(MULITES, A. d'See also:

• ORBIGNY, ALCIDE DESSALINES

Orbigny's name for a genus of Perforate See also:

• FORAMINIFERA

Foraminifera (q.v.), distinguished by the flattened, lenticular discoid See also:

• SHELL
• SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)

shell of many turns, finely perforated; See also:

• CHAMBERS (the Fr. chambre, from Lat. camera, a room)
• CHAMBERS, EPHRAIM (d. 1740)
• CHAMBERS, GEORGE (1803-1840)
• CHAMBERS, ROBERT (18oz-1871)
• CHAMBERS, SIR WILLIAM (1726-1796)

chambers subdivided by incomplete septa into squarish chamber-lets . This genus is especially abundant in See also:

• EOCENE (Gr. *In, dawn, icauvos, recent)

Eocene Limestones, which attain See also:

• GREAT

great thickness around the Mediterranean See also:

• BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)
• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

basin; the Pyramids of See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt are built of it .