Fossiliferous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Fossiliferous is an adjective meaning Containing fossils.
Meaning
Containing fossils.
Example Sentences
The area contains a great thickness of well exposed fossiliferous, marine strata of uppermost Cretaceous and Eocene age, and it is felt that the most continuous and complete section may be found here.
Having already described him [the whale] in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archæological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sparsely, carboniferous, fossiled, semifossilized, semifossil, fucoidal.
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