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What does fossiliferous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Containing fossils.
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Of the three Triassic and Jurassic fossiliferous formations, no angular fragments were found from the shell beds.
Conditions requisite for the original completeness of a fossiliferous series.
The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
Strata were examined in the field for evidence of fossil content, and those horizons that appeared to be fossiliferous were sampled in bulk.
Bed 4 comprised medium grey fossiliferous mudstone with limonitic ooids and phosphatic nodules.
In this great class we should probably have to descend far beneath the lowest known fossiliferous stratum to discover the earlier stages, by which the eye has been perfected.

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