Bufonite

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bufonite \Bu"fon*ite\, n. [L. bufo toad: cf. F. bufonite.]
     (Paleon.)
     An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth
     and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of
     Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the
     o["o]lite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a


     notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.
     [1913 Webster]