fossiliferous

adjective

fos·sil·if·er·ous ˌfä-sə-ˈli-f(ə-)rəs

: containing fossils

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Researchers working in northeastern Wyoming, in the fossiliferous Black Hills region, found a bunch of dinosaur bones. —

Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2018 The 100-million-year-old toe bit is not new to science; it was found in 1999 during an excavation of Morocco's famously fossiliferous Kem Kem Beds and sat on a museum shelf in Milan for nearly 20 years. —

Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018 The key to unraveling the mystery is in the fossiliferous demographics of the Shonisaurus preserved in quarry 2. —

Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022 Many different lines of evidence have become involved in this fossiliferous sleuthing. —

Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022 The sheer pressure put on Ammonite to fulfill our fossiliferous expectations says something about our current moment in science. —

Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020 And that’s just from the fossiliferous rocks that have been explored so far. —

Riley Black, Smithsonian, 31 July 2019 Brian Switek Brian is a freelance science writer and author of fossiliferous books such as My Beloved Brontosaurus. —

Brian Switek, Scientific American, 25 June 2019 Soak Up the Past Among its other bona fides, Wyoming is one of the most fossiliferous places on the planet. —

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