Zool. [f. mod.L. alveolites, f. L. alveol-us + -ITE.] A genus of fossil Zoophytes found in the chalk.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 537. Lamarck’s name Alveolites might be extended to the Stenoporæ.

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1847.  in Craig.

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