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

“It’s the largest marine bone bed found in Los Angeles and Orange counties.”

From Los Angeles Times

Researchers uncovered two distinct sites on campus where new buildings were under construction: a bone bed dating back 8.7 million years in the Miocene era and a shell bed about 120,000 years old from the Pleistocene era.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Cindy Howells, Curator of Palaeontology at the National Museum of Wales, adds: "The collections from Lavernock go all the way back to the 19th century, with many sections of the bone bed being collected over the years. The presence of dinosaur fossils at the site ensure that it remains one of the most significant localities for palaeontology in Wales."

From Science Daily