fossil bed in a sentence

Examples

1. Paleontology is in its infancy in Alaska, pursued methodically only since the mid-1980s when the fossil bed discovered by Shell Oil geologist Robert Liscomb drew interest at universities.
2. On the one hand, this important find drew attention to a site that scientists think will prove to be one of the most important fossil beds ever discovered.
3. Two other dromaeosaurs have been recovered from these fossil beds : Sinornithosaurus, a small dinosaur first described in 1999, and Microraptor, the smallest known theropod, found last years.
4. The footprints are at least 25 million years older than any other fossil beds farther north, and are strong evidence of dinosaur migration from Asia to North America.
5. Other trails lead to 60 million-year-old fossil beds or climb from aspen-lined riverbeds to hilly vistas looking out on the jagged white teeth of the freshly frosted Absarokas.
6. The bay is sandy and backed with stand up paddle surfers, and also fossil hunters, as the Bracklesham Beds, a well known fossil bed, is visible at low tide.
7. Another member of the genus, " Cheirothrix libanicus ", is found in the same fossil bed and other members of the genus are known from 84-million-year-old deposits in Germany.
8. The discovery site, in the Djurab desert in Chad, is more than 1, 500 miles west of the more familiar fossil beds of East Africa, in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.
9. Villagers digging in the fossil beds have unearthed dinosaurs, insects, birds and plants from millions of years ago, but this is the first time a flowering plant has been uncovered.
10. Late last year several gas developers were allowed to drill exploratory wells near Dinosaur Provincial Park, a renown area of wilderness and fossil beds about 100 miles east of Calgary.