[1840–50; fossil + -i- + -ferous]This word is first recorded in the period 1840–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bypass, creationism, organizer, striation, warmup-i- is the typical ending of the first element of compounds of Latin words, as -o- is of Greek words, but often used in English with a first element of any origin,if the second element is of Latin origin. Other words that use the affix -i- include: Frenchify, cuneiform; -ferous is a combining form meaning “bearing,” “producing,” “yielding,” “containing,” “conveying,”used in the formation of compound words. Other words that use the affix -ferous include: coniferous, pestiferous
Examples of 'fossiliferous' in a sentence
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Fourteen of the eighteen localities that were fossiliferous were identified by the predictive model.
Charles Emerson, Bryan Bommersbach, Brett Nachman, Robert Anemone 2015, 'An Object-Oriented Approach to Extracting Productive Fossil Localities from RemotelySensed Imagery', Remote Sensinghttp://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/12/15848. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The fungi are closely associated with fossiliferous marine sediments that have been introduced into the vesicles.
Magnus Ivarsson, Jörn Peckmann, Anders Tehler, Curt Broman, Wolfgang Bach, KatharinaBehrens, Joachim Reitner, Michael E. Böttcher, Lena Norbäck Ivarsson 2015, 'Zygomycetes in Vesicular Basanites from Vesteris Seamount, Greenland Basin – A NewType of Cryptoendolithic Fungi', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0133368. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Nevertheless, this homogeneity has never been checked empirically in species proportions inside the same fossiliferous level.
F. Blanco, M. Hernández Fernández 2016, 'Lateral heterogeneity in rodent samples of the T1 level from the Middle Miocene ofSomosaguas (Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid)', Estudios Geologicoshttp://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/946. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A description of the stratigraphic framework and the field campaigns carried out on this fossiliferous locality are included.
Morales, J., Peláez-Campomanes, P., García Paredes, I., Herráez, E. 2006, 'Los Nogales, nueva fauna de vertebrados del Mioceno medio de Madrid', Estudios Geologicoshttp://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/25/24. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Thin, poorly fossiliferous successions of arenites and crinoidal limestones contrast with very thick terrigenous-carbonate successions comprising two distinct fossiliferoushorizons.
LUCIA ANGIOLINI, HOWARD BRUNTON, ANDREA ZANCHI 1999, 'LATE CARBONIFEROUS BRACHIOPODS FROM KARAKORUM, PAKISTAN', Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafiahttps://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/5363. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The fossiliferous assemblage was accumulated in the paludine fringe of a calcareous, fresh water lacustrine system.
Alberdi, M. T., Hoyos Gómez, M., Alonso Diago, M. A. 2002, 'Tafonomia y ambiente sedimentario del yacimiento de Huelago', Estudios Geologicoshttp://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/108/104. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Unfortunately, the lack of accurately located fossiliferous sites and the absence of hominoid fossils have impeded paleontological studies.
Jean-Jacques Jaeger, Aung Naing Soe, Olivier Chavasseau, Pauline Coster, Edouard-GeorgesEmonet, Franck Guy, Renaud Lebrun, Aye Maung, Aung Aung Khyaw, Hla Shwe, Soe ThuraTun, Kyaw Linn Oo, Mana Rugbumrung, Hervé Bocherens, Mouloud Benammi, Kamol Chaivanich,Paul Tafforeau, Yaowalak Chaimanee 2011, 'First hominoid from the Late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation (Myanmar).', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3080362?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)