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

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

This means that Tanque Loma is a monodominant bone bed.

From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2020

Based on photographs and documents from the original excavation, they established that some of the newly found animal fossils came from the same rich bone bed as the H. erectus fossils.

From Science Magazine • 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