fossiliferous
IPA: fɑsʌɫˈɪfɝʌs
adjective
- Containing fossils.
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Examples of "fossiliferous" in Sentences
- It is unconsolidated and highly fossiliferous.
- The littoral zone contains the only fossiliferous strata.
- They later become fossiliferous, a fancy word for fossils.
- The parish lies on fossiliferous chalk and upper greensand.
- At the site, a chapel had been built into the fossiliferous rocks.
- It is also the most fossiliferous especially for ammonite fossils .
- They are overlain by the fossiliferous limestones of the Antalo group.
- The article refers to fossiliferous rock and has a link to Paleontology.
- The stone substrate is made of fossiliferous limestone in these photographs.
- The uppermost clay regions of the Mahantango Formation are highly fossiliferous.