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From Quaternary +‎ -ist.

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quaternarist (plural quaternarists)

  1. (geology, paleontology) A specialist in the Quaternary period.
    • 2008 January 25, Richard A. Kerr, “A Time War Over the Period We Live In”, in Science[1], 319(5862), page 402:
      Indeed, in recent years, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) "abolished" the Quaternary, according to riled quaternarists.