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plural graptolites
Any of a group of extinct aquatic colonial invertebrates, of the class Graptolithina, from the Cambrian and Carboniferous periods. quotations examples
The samples were black shale, and on the shales were some ancient fossils called graptolites.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 70