a. [f. FOSSIL sb. + -(I)FEROUS. Cf. F. fossilifère.] Bearing or containing fossils or organic remains.
18[?]. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875) II. II. xxi. 194. The fossiliferous deposits of modern date on that coast.
1858. Geikie, Hist. Boulder, vi. 97. Who that has ever wielded an enthusiastic hammer among the richly fossiliferous beds of the mountain limestone, does not remember with delight the hosts of delicately fluted shells that the labour of an hour could pile up before him?
