cache of fossils

Portuguese translation: jazida de fósseis

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English term or phrase:cache of fossils
Portuguese translation:jazida de fósseis
Entered by: Alexandre Reis

02:08 Feb 26, 2009
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Science - Archaeology
English term or phrase: cache of fossils
Qual é a tradução de "cache of fossils"?

Included in the cache of fossils were some 700 specimens, including a large prehistoric American Lion skull, lion bones, bones from dire wolves, saber-toothed cats, juvenile horse and bison, teratorn, coyotes, lynx and ground sloths.

Do Michaelis
cache: esconderijo (para provisões ou alimentos). 2 provisões ou alimentos escondidos. • vt 1 pôr em esconderijo (provisões, alimentos). 2 esconder, ocultar.

esconderijo de fóssil??

Muito obrigado desde já.
Alexandre Reis
Brazil
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jazida de fósseis
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Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
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4 +2jazida de fósseis
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
4 +1depósito de fósseis
Marlene Curtis
4tesouro de fósseis
Leniel Maccaferri


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
jazida de fósseis


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Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
7 hrs

agree  Lúcia Leitão: "(...) grandes jazidas de fósseis do mundo, (...) fósseis vertebrados, ..." www.scb.org.br/artigos/FC08.asp - 49k
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
tesouro de fósseis


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Ivo Korytowski's English-Portuguese Translator's Dictionary

cache
esconderijo, depósito, provisões/tesouro/munições escondidas, cache (Inf.)


    Reference: http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/01/25/sociedade/tesouro_fosseis_encon...
Leniel Maccaferri
Brazil
Local time: 22:10
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
depósito de fósseis


Explanation:
cache = depósito secreto

More recently an impressive cache of soft-bodied fossils was discovered in China (called the Chengjiang fauna). One of the discoverers of the early Cambrian vertebrate fossils at Chengjiang stated: “Since the identification of the Lower Cambrian Yunnanozoon as a chordate in 1995, large numbers of complete specimens of soft-bodied chordates from the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan Shale in central Yunnan (southern China) have been recovered
http://www.evolutionfairytale.com/articles_debates/fossil_il...

Portal Educação - Fórum: Hipervariabilidade Ancestral - [ Translate this page ]Fossils, genes and the origin of new species. New York, Basic Books Inc. Publishers, 1981. ..... Abundancia de Fósseis em contradição com a previsão de Darwin que seriam ... aos depósitos estratificados formados em canaletas de laboratório, .... Disponivel em <http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:rUIw4YQVQqEJ:www. ...
www.psicologiavirtual.com.br/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 21:10
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Floriana Leary
7 hrs
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