[hoh-muh-tak-sis, hom-uh-] 
| a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous. |
| ho·mo·tax·is (hō'mō-tāk'sĭs, hŏm'ō-) n. Similarity of stratigraphic arrangement and fossils in noncontemporaneous or widely separated geologic deposits. ho'mo·tax'ic (-tāk'sĭk), ho'mo·tax'i·al (-tāk'sē-əl) adj. |
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