Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing ammonites; containing the remains of ammonites: as, ammonitiferous rocks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing fossil ammonites.
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- adjective Containing
fossil ammonites .
Etymologies
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ammonite + -iferous
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Examples
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It is very like the celebrated marble of Portovenere, a modern Italian species obtained from the western hills of the Gulf of Spezia, where the formation passes into that of the ammonitiferous limestones of the Lias and of the palæozoic rocks.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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