How To Use fossiliferous In A Sentence
- The richly fossiliferous Namurian bed is packed with both brachiopods and goniatites.
- In addition to the flakes we uncovered two dozen fire-scorched rocks, a biface knife, a broken piece of fossiliferous chert that had been heated. Bird Cloud
- fossiliferous strata
- The conglomerate is overlain by a claystone-dominated fossiliferous interval, which contains spirorbid worm tubes, abundant conchostracans, plant debris, fusain, and a pygocephalomorph-bearing limestone.
- But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, whose antiquity seems to claim for them an almost fossiliferous character, we find the unmistakable print of his fin. Moby Dick; or the Whale
- Two fossiliferous horizons have been identified at this locality; the multituberculate specimens occur in the lower of these horizons, in a thin layer of indurated black shale below a massive sandstone layer.
- It is distinguished from adjacent terranes of similar age by its open synclinal structure, obviously fossiliferous character, the thickness of essentially conformable strata, and the predominance of volcaniclastic rocks.
- fossiliferous," or shell limestone, and have drawn the erroneous inference that the animal matter once contained in those shells originated petroleum; but no fish oil ever contained paraffin. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- The La Meseta Formation is the best exposed and most fossiliferous rock unit of Eocene age in Antarctica.
- The white to gray flint bed, 2.5 meters thick, rests on gray fossiliferous Vanport Limestone.
