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Alas, quarrying explosives had blown apart the fossiliferous layers of rock, splintering many of the bones.
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Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2018
The material came from the famously fossiliferous Aust Cliff, and, like the Somerset specimen, is from the Late Triassic's Rhaetian Age, about 201-208 million years ago.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2018
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
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Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2018
The material came from the famously fossiliferous Aust Cliff, and, like the Somerset specimen, is from the Late Triassic's Rhaetian Age, about 201-208 million years ago.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2018
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
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“Fossiliferous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fossiliferous. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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