Crossword-Solution: MAMMALIFEROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mammaliferous | a. | Containing mammalian remains; -- said of certain strata. |
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| CONTAINING mammalian remains | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEMCAE
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eruption
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Sentences with MAMMALIFEROUS (5)
And in the Stonisfield slate,--a deposit interposed between the "Inferior" and "Great Oolites," we detect the earliest indications of his first or mammaliferous class, apparently represented, however, by but one order,--the Marsupiata, or pouched animals, to whose special place in the scale I shall afterwards have occasion to refer.
Further, not until the great mammaliferous period is fairly ushered in do either the bats or the whales make their appearance in creation.
Our present mammaliferous fauna is rather poor; but the contents of the later deposits show that we must regard it as but a mere fragment of a very noble one.
The very common shell _Purpura lapillus_, for instance, is found in our raised beaches, in our Clyde beds, in our boulder clays and mammaliferous crags, and, finally, in the Red Crag, beyond which it fails to appear.
They are older by a whole deposit than their present contemporaries, the mussel and periwinkle; and these, in turn, seem of older standing than shells such as _Murex erinaceus_, that has not been traced beyond the times of the mammaliferous crag, or than shells such as _Scrobicularia piperata_, that has not been detected in more ancient deposits than raised sea beaches of the later periods, and the elevated bottoms of old estuaries and lagoons.