ossiferous caves. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : ossiferous caves and rock beds. From Dictionary.com.
On the discovery of an ossiferous cavern of Pliocene age at Dove Holes, Buxton (Derbyshire). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
The fragments of egg-shells, imbedded in the ossiferous deposits, had escaped the notice of all previous naturalists. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
There was no stalagmite in the grotto, and M. Lartet, an experienced investigator of ossiferous caverns in the south of. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
The ossiferous caves of the peninsula of Gower in Glamorganshire have been diligently explored of late years by Dr. Falconer and. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Brazil, the only equatorial region where ossiferous caverns have yet been explored, that the discovery, in a fossil state, of extinct forms allied to the human, could be looked for. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
The late Dr. Schmerling of Liege, a skilful anatomist and palaeontologist, after devoting several years to the exploring of the numerous ossiferous caverns which border the valleys of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
In carrying out this work, about 12 feet of the left bank was cut away, and a cavernous fissure, choked up to the roof with ossiferous loam, was then, for the first time, exposed to view. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Besides the bear and hyena, upwards of a hundred species of extinct animals have been found in the ossiferous caves of Great Britain, among them being those of the elephant and a rhinoceros. From Wordnik.com. [The Mines and its Wonders] Reference
I am rather inclined to admit the existence of some animal resembling in structure the human race -- of some monkey of the first geological epochs, like that discovered by M. Lartet in the ossiferous deposit of Sansan. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage au centre de la terre. English] Reference
If we accept M. Lartet's interpretation of the ossiferous deposits of Aurignac, both inside and outside the grotto, they add nothing to the palaeontological evidence in favour of M.n's antiquity, for we have seen all the same mammalia associated elsewhere with flint implements, and some species, such as the Elephas antiquus. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
It is just, at any rate, to recognize that even in his remotest resorts for temporary rest and retirement from the cares of government, he led the same kind of plain, modest life, spending all his leisure hours in arranging his collections of natural history, more especially the palaeo-ethnological or prehistoric, for which the ossiferous caverns of the Island of Capri supplied him with abundant materials. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)] Reference
Journal of the Geological Society "volume 15 1859 page 602.) occurs deep in the Val d'Arno deposits, and in the" Forest bed, "and superimposed blue clays, with lignite, of the Norfolk coast, but nowhere as yet found in the ossiferous caves in Britain. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
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