fossiliferous
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonfossiliferous adjective
- unfossiliferous adjective
Etymology
Origin of fossiliferous
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Catherine Telford Keogh’s “Cradlers” at Socrates raises steel and aluminum high into the air on poles, intersecting constructions that look like fragments from a spaceship’s hull with fossiliferous limestone blocks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Even the mention of T. rex can launch what would be a ho-hum scientific disagreement into a battle over fossiliferous minutiae.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2022
Nonetheless, my grandfather built walls, arches and other stone structures using the fossiliferous limestone that is abundant in Cincinnati.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2022
One chunk of this formation “is the most fossiliferous package of rock I’ve ever seen,” says Raymond Rogers, a geologist at Macalester College in St. Paul, who has been studying the site for 2 decades.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 29, 2017
He refused to accept Louis Agassiz’s idea of ice ages–"the refrigeration of the globe," as he dismissively termed it–and was confident that mammals "would be found in the oldest fossiliferous beds."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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