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  • noun Plural form of bonebed.

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Examples

  • So I had several short frilled Ceratopsians to choose from, including the two best known from mass bonebeds related to floods.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Prehistoric Insanity 2009

  • So I had several short frilled Ceratopsians to choose from, including the two best known from mass bonebeds related to floods.

    Life's Time Capsule: Making a Prehistoric Flood Traumador 2009

  • Some of these bonebeds contain the remains of hundreds to possibly thousands of individuals and represent catastrophic mass death assemblages that strongly indicate herding behavior Eberth, 1996.

    Archive 2009-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2009

  • They are often found in bonebeds, which are accumulations of vertebrate fossils from more than one individual that are concentrated along a bedding plane or throughout a single bed Eberth and Getty, 2005.

    Archive 2009-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2009

  • Although Triceratops is the most common dinosaur in the terminal Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation White et al., 1998, known from over 50 singleton specimens collected since the late nineteenth century, no bonebeds or associations of multiple individuals have previously been reported.

    The first Triceratops bonebed ... ReBecca Foster 2009

  • Although Triceratops is the most common dinosaur in the terminal Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation White et al., 1998, known from over 50 singleton specimens collected since the late nineteenth century, no bonebeds or associations of multiple individuals have previously been reported.

    Archive 2009-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2009

  • For example, 20 bonebeds have been reported from Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, which contain Centrosaurus and Styracosaurus Visser,1986; Ryan et al., 2001; Eberth and Getty, 2005.

    The first Triceratops bonebed ... ReBecca Foster 2009

  • Some of these bonebeds contain the remains of hundreds to possibly thousands of individuals and represent catastrophic mass death assemblages that strongly indicate herding behavior Eberth, 1996.

    The first Triceratops bonebed ... ReBecca Foster 2009

  • For example, 20 bonebeds have been reported from Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, which contain Centrosaurus and Styracosaurus Visser,1986; Ryan et al., 2001; Eberth and Getty, 2005.

    Archive 2009-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2009

  • They are often found in bonebeds, which are accumulations of vertebrate fossils from more than one individual that are concentrated along a bedding plane or throughout a single bed Eberth and Getty, 2005.

    The first Triceratops bonebed ... ReBecca Foster 2009

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