bone bed

British  

noun

1. geology a sediment containing large quantities of fossilized animal remains, such as bones, teeth, scales, etc

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Example Sentences

Strewn throughout the bone bed are massive relics of something no one can quite identify, a mysterious dinosaur more numerous and better preserved than any other animal.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024

Until the recent bone bed discovery, a similar formation had not been found there since 1887.

From Washington Times • Jul. 12, 2023

From this urban bone bed, researchers dug up a 1-centimeter-wide partial skull embedded with other bones in a thick chunk of rock.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 27, 2022

Finally, the researchers located the original bone bed and dug up hundreds more fossils.

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2019

This "bone bed," as it was called by our surveyors, is three miles and a half in length, and forty-five fathoms under water, and contains a few shells intermingled with the bones.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir