In 1924, a limestone quarry owner at Taung shipped Dart a box of fossiliferous rock.
The rocks were deposited in a generally shallow marine setting, indicated by the richly fossiliferous rocks of the Madison.
One variety of "Turritella agate", that from the Green River Formation in Wyoming, is a fossiliferous rock which does indeed contain numerous high-spired snail shells.
Michigan is a state within the USA that is not known for fossiliferous rocks, but there are some localities where fossils may be found.
Secondary or Stratified (Flötz) Series - the remaining, obviously stratified fossiliferous rocks and certain associated "trap" rocks.
At the site, a chapel had been built into the fossiliferous rocks.
This zone is about 40 km wide and composed of fossiliferous sedimentary rocks such as shale, sandstone and limestone etc.
On either side of this pass there are exposures of fossiliferous Cretaceous rocks.
The Wrangellian rocks include fossiliferous sedimentary rocks interspersed with volcanic rocks.
New Jersey has the most fossiliferous Late Cretaceous rocks of the Mid-Atlantic region.