Palæont. [f. mod.L. cochlites, f. Gr. κόχλος spiral sea-shell + -ITE.] A fossil spiral shell.
[1695. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth, IV. (1723), 203. The Bodyes which are call’d, by Naturalists … Cochlitæ.]
1698. Molyneux, in Phil. Trans., XX. 219. Without any Mixture of Cochlite, Belemnite, Veins of Spar, or such like extraneous Matter.
1811. Pinkerton, Petral., II. 584. A cochlite, or sea-snail, found in a vein of gold in Transilvania.
