rare–0A less incorrect form (in Dicts.) of FOSSILOGY. So Fossilological a., pertaining to ‘fossilology.’ Fossilologist, one who studies this science.
1837. Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sc., III. XVIII. iii. § 2. 525. When the earlier writers, as Lister and Fontenelle, spoke of mineralogical and fossilological maps, they could hardly be said to know the meaning of the terms which they thus used.
1864. Worcester (cites Buchanan), Fossilology.
1882. Cassell, Fossilologist.
