bone bed
Britishnoun
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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
Finally, the researchers located the original bone bed and dug up hundreds more fossils.
From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2019
The lower limestone shales are 500 ft. thick in the Bristol area and only 165 in the forest, richly fossiliferous and famous for their bone bed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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