Palæont. [ad. mod.L. tellīnitēs, f. tellīna: see TELLEN and -ITE1.] A fossil shell of, or resembling, the genus Tellina; a fossil tellen.
1799. R. Kirwan, Geol. Essays, 252. A number of shells, mostly tellinites, filled with striated shining hornblende.
1802–3. trans. Pallas’s Trav. (1812), I. 515. Hard layers … interspersed throughout with pectinites, tellinites, and oolites.
