[ad. mod.L. turbinīt-ēs, or a. F. turbinite, f. L. turbin-em: see TURBO and -ITE1.] A fossil turbinate shell. Also Turbite.
1828. Webster, Turbinite, Turbite.
1852. Th. Ross, Humboldt’s Trav., I. vi. 204. Some beds are almost unmixed with petrifactions, but … the cardites, the turbinites, the ostracites, and shells of small dimension, are found.
