Usually means: Fossil indicating specific geological time.
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  1. index fossil: Merriam-Webster
  2. index fossil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. index fossil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. index fossil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. index fossil: Vocabulary.com
  6. index fossil: Wiktionary
  7. index fossil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. index fossil: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. index fossil: Dictionary.com
  10. Index fossil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. index fossil: Rhymezone
  12. index fossil: FreeDictionary.org
  13. index fossil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. index fossil: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. index fossil: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See index_fossils as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (index fossil)

noun:  Any ancient remains of a plant or animal that lived during a specific geological period and that can be used to date the containing rocks.

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