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bone bed

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Alongside the marine animals, Bischoff said he was excited to find an entire shore ecology that included skulls of sandpipers and pieces of driftwood in the bone bed.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 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

This means that Tanque Loma is a monodominant bone bed.

From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2020

The "landscape marble" belongs to this formation, which also contains a bone bed, or thin layer made up of the bones and teeth, etc., of fish.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter

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