List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils
This is a list of stratigraphic units from which dinosaur body fossils have been recovered. Although Dinosauria is a clade which includes modern birds, this article covers only Mesozoic stratigraphic units. Units listed are all either formation rank or higher (e.g. group).
By diversity
Here the units are sorted by the number of genera that have been reported as being represented in their respective fossil yields. Since the creation or synonymy of genera can be subjective, the sorting of the units can only roughly approximate their known paleobiodiversities.
>20
Name | Age | Location | Description |
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Late Turonian to Coniacian[1] |
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Barremian to basal Cenomanian |
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Middle Campanian[4] |
has many alternate spellings | ||
Norian to Sinemurian | |||
Late Maastrichtian[6] |
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Early Maastrichtian[7] |
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Aptian[8] |
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Late Maastrichtian[10] |
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Kimmeridgian to Early Tithonian | |||
Early Maastrichtian[12] |
has a few alternate spellings | ||
Barremian[15] |
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11-20
Name | Age | Location | Description |
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Middle Campanian (?)[19] |
has a few alternate spellings | ||
Cenomanian to Santonian[20] |
has many alternate spellings | ||
Late Maastrichtian [22] | |||
Late Maastrichtian[23] |
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Middle Campanian | |||
Late Berriasian to Valanginian[25] |
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?Campanian[26] |
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Kimmeridgian to Late Tithonian[27] |
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Late Maastrichtian | |||
Late Maastrichtian[31] |
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Callovian[34] |
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Campanian | |||
Late Maastrichtian[36] |
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Kimmeridgian[37] |
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6-10
Name | Age | Location | Description |
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Late Cretaceous [40][41] |
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Cenomanian to Coniacian[48] |
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Kimmeridgian[51] |
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Sinemurian[55] |
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Late Aptian[56] |
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Late Aptian[58] |
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Campanian[61] |
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Early Maastrichtian[62] |
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Carnian[64] |
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Campanian[68] |
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Early Campanian[69] |
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Coniacian to Early Campanian[71] |
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Late Maastrichtian[74] |
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Middle Norian[75] |
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1-5
Indeterminate
This list includes stratigraphic units that have produced dinosaur remains, although none of these remains have been referred to a specific genus.
By preservation
Bone beds and mass graves
Name | Age | Location | Description |
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Jurassic | |||
Lagerstatten
Name | Age | Location | Description |
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Kimmeridgian[79] |
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See also
Footnotes
- 1 2 "Bissekty Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 594.
- ↑ "Cedar Mountain Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 554, 579.
- 1 2 3 "Dinosaur Park Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576-78.
- 1 2 3 4 "Djadochta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-98.
- 1 2 3 "Elliot Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 528-529, 536.
- 1 2 3 "Hell Creek Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 584-586.
- 1 2 3 "Horseshoe Canyon Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 577.
- 1 2 3 "Jiufotang Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 565-66.
- 1 2 3 "Judith River Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 583.
- 1 2 3 "Lance Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 585-586.
- 1 2 3 "Morrison Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 543-545.
- 1 2 3 "Nemegt Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-597.
- 1 2 "Shaximiao Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 542, 550-1.
- 1 2 3 "Two Medicine Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 582-583.
- 1 2 3 "Wessex Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 558-559.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Yixian Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 566-567.
- 1 2 3 "Late Cretaceous; North America; Texas; Aguja Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pp. 581-582.
- ↑ "Late Cretaceous; North America; Estado de Chihuahua, Mexico; Aguja Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 588.
- 1 2 "Barun Goyot Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595-597.
- 1 2 "Bayan Shireh Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-597.
- 1 2 "Ferris Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 585.
- ↑ Hartman, Joseph Herbert; Johnson, Kirk R.; Nichols, Douglas J. (2002). The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record of the End of the Cretaceous. Geological Society of America. ISBN 9780813723617.
- 1 2 3 "Frenchman Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 578.
- 1 2 "Fruitland Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 580.
- 1 2 3 "Hastings Beds Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 559.
- 1 2 3 "Iren Dabasu Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598.
- 1 2 3 "Kimmeridge Clay Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 546.
- 1 2 "Lower Kirtland Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 580.
- 1 2 "Upper Kirtland Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 580-581.
- ↑ "Lameta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595.
- 1 2 3 "Laramie Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 581.
- 1 2 "Lower Lufeng Series Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 534.
- 1 2 3 "Oldman Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576.
- 1 2 3 "Oxford Clay Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 539-540.
- 1 2 "Rio Colorado Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603-4.
- 1 2 3 "Scollard Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 578.
- 1 2 3 "Tendaguru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 552.
- 1 2 3 "Xinminbao Group Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 567.
- ↑ Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, South America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 600-604. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- ↑ Turner, A.H.; Calvo, J.O. (2005). "A new sebecosuchian crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (1): 87–98. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0087:ANSCFT]2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ Marco Brandalise de Andrade; Reinaldo J. Bertini (2008). "A new Sphagesaurus (Mesoeucrocodylia: Notosuchia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Monte Alto City (Bauru Group, Brazil), and a revision of the Sphagesauridae". Historical Biology. 20 (2): 101–136. doi:10.1080/08912960701642949.
- 1 2 3 "Late Cretaceous; South America; Provincia de Río Negro, Argentina; Allen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 604.
- ↑ "Almond Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 584.
- 1 2 3 "Early Cretaceous; North America; "Texas" and "Oklahoma;" Antlers Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 555.
- ↑ "Aréen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 591.
- 1 2 "Early Cretaceous; North America; "Maryland" and "Washington, D.C.;" Arundel Clay)." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 556.
- ↑ "Baharija Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 605.
- 1 2 "Bajo Barreal Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 602.
- ↑ "Bauxite of Cornet." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 562.
- ↑ "Calizas de La Huergina Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 561-62.
- 1 2 "Camadas de Alcobaça." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548-549.
- ↑ "Camadas de Guimarota." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548.
- ↑ "Castellar Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 560-1.
- ↑ "Chipping Norton Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 538,540.
- 1 2 "Clarens Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 536.
- 1 2 "Cloverly Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 556.
- 1 2 "Denver Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 581.
- 1 2 3 "Elrhaz Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 572.
- ↑ "Foremost Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576.
- ↑ "Forest Marble Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 538-40.
- 1 2 3 "Gosau Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 592.
- 1 2 3 "Gres a reptiles Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 589-90.
- ↑ "Hornerstown Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 586.
- 1 2 3 "Ischigualasto Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 528.
- 1 2 3 "Kaiparowits Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 579-80.
- ↑ "Knollenmergel Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 524.
- ↑ "Lecho Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603.
- 1 2 3 "Maevarano Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 605.
- 1 2 "Milk River Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576.
- ↑ "Minhe Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598-9.
- 1 2 3 "Niobrara Chalk Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 582,586.
- ↑ "Prince Creek Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 587.
- ↑ "Rio Neuquen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603.
- 1 2 3 "Sânpetru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 592-593.
- 1 2 3 "Stubensandstein Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 524.
- 1 2 3 "Tugulu Group Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 567.
- ↑ "Unidade Bombarral." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548-9.
- ↑ "Wangshi Group." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598, 600.
- 1 2 "Solnhofen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 549.
References
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.