fossiliferous
adjective
bearing or containing fossils, as rocks or strata.
unfossiliferous
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a word derived from
fossiliferous.
Example Sentences
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The former appears to be almost unfossiliferous, the latter has yielded a rich marine fauna, which belongs to the top of the Carboniferous or to the Permo-carboniferous.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
They are interbedded with unfossiliferous sandstones and shales.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
From Derby to Northumberland it forms vast and lofty moors, capping, as at Whernside and Penygent, the highest limestone hills with its hard, rough, barren, and unfossiliferous strata.
From Town Geology by Charles Kingsley
Some unfossiliferous conglomerates, sandstones and dolomites in South Africa and on the west coast are considered to belong to the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian formations, but merely from their occurrence beneath strata yielding Devonian fossils.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
They for the most part are either wholly unfossiliferous, or they contain the remains of plants or the bones of reptiles, such as may easily have been drifted from some neighbouring shore.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson
