nummulite in English
noun
1
the flat disk-shaped calcareous shell of a foraminifer, found commonly as a fossil up to 8 cm across in marine Tertiary deposits.
The occurrence higher in the succession of nummulites and neritic fossils indicates overall shallowing upwards.
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