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

Bissekty Formation[1]

Late Turonian to Coniacian[1]

Cedar Mountain Formation[2]

Barremian to basal Cenomanian

Dinosaur Park Formation[3]

Late Campanian[3]

Djadochta Formation[4]

Middle Campanian[4]

 has many alternate spellings

Elliot Formation[5]

 Norian to Sinemurian

Hell Creek Formation[6]

Late Maastrichtian[6]

Horseshoe Canyon Formation[7]

Early Maastrichtian[7]

Jiufotang Formation[8]

Aptian[8]

Judith River Formation[9]

Late Campanian[9]

Lance Formation[10]

Late Maastrichtian[10]

Morrison Formation[11]

 Kimmeridgian to Early Tithonian

Nemegt Formation[12]

Early Maastrichtian[12]

has a few alternate spellings

Shaximiao Formation[13]

Bathonian to basal Oxfordian

Two Medicine Formation[14]

Campanian[14]

Wessex Formation[15]

Barremian[15]

Yixian Formation[16]

Barremian[16]

11-20

Name Age Location Description

Aguja Formation[17]

Campanian[17]

Barun Goyot Formation[19]

Middle Campanian (?)[19]

 has a few alternate spellings

Bayan Shireh Formation[20]

Cenomanian to Santonian[20]

has many alternate spellings

Ferris Formation[21]

 Late Maastrichtian [22]

Frenchman Formation[23]

Late Maastrichtian[23]

Fruitland Formation[24]

 Middle Campanian

Hastings Beds[25]

Late Berriasian to Valanginian[25]

Iren Dabasu Formation[26]

?Campanian[26]

Kimmeridge Clay[27]

Kimmeridgian to Late Tithonian[27]

Kirtland Formation[28]

Late Campanian[28] to Early Maastrichtian[29]

Lameta Formation[30]

 Late Maastrichtian

Laramie Formation[31]

Late Maastrichtian[31]

Lower Lufeng Series[32]

Oldman Formation[33]

Late Campanian[33]

Oxford Clay[34]

Callovian[34]

Rio Colorado Formation[35]

 Campanian

Scollard Formation[36]

Late Maastrichtian[36]

Tendaguru Formation[37]

Kimmeridgian[37]

Xinminbao Group[38]

Barremian to Albian[38]

6-10

Name Age Location Description

Adamantina Formation[39]

Late Cretaceous [40][41]

Allen Formation[42]

Middle Campanian[42]

Almond Formation[43]

Anacleto Formation

Antlers Formation[44]

Late Aptian to Middle Albian[44]

Aréen Formation[45]

Arundel Clay[46]

Middle Aptian to Early Albian.[46]

Baharija Formation[47]

Bajo Barreal Formation[48]

Cenomanian to Coniacian[48]

Bajo de la Carpa Formation

Bauxite of Cornet[49]

Bayan Mandahu Formation

Calizas de La Huergina Formation[50]

Camadas de Alcobaça[51]

Kimmeridgian[51]

Camadas de Guimarota[52]

Castellar Formation[53]

Chipping Norton Formation[54]

Clarens Formation[55]

Sinemurian[55]

Cloverly Formation[56]

Late Aptian[56]

Denver Formation[57]

Maastrichtian[57]

Elrhaz Formation[58]

Late Aptian[58]

Foremost Formation[59]

Forest Marble Formation[60]

Gosau Formation[61]

Campanian[61]

Gres a reptiles[62]

Early Maastrichtian[62]

Hornerstown Formation[63]

Ischigualasto Formation[64]

Carnian[64]

Kaiparowits Formation[65]

Late Campanian[65]

Knollenmergel[66]

Lecho Formation[67]

Maevarano Formation[68]

Campanian[68]

Milk River Formation[69]

Early Campanian[69]

Minhe Formation[70]

Niobrara Chalk[71]

Coniacian to Early Campanian[71]

Prince Creek Formation[72]

Rio Neuquen Formation[73]

Sânpetru Formation[74]

Late Maastrichtian[74]

Stubensandstein[75]

Middle Norian[75]

Tugulu Group[76]

?Valanginian to Albian[76]

Unidade Bombarral[77]

Wangshi Group[78]

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

Morrison Formation[11]

 Jurassic

Lagerstatten

Name Age Location Description

Solnhofen limestone

Kimmeridgian[79]

Yixian Formation[16]

Barremian[16]

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 "Bissekty Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 594.
  2. ↑ "Cedar Mountain Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 554, 579.
  3. 1 2 3 "Dinosaur Park Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576-78.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Djadochta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-98.
  5. 1 2 3 "Elliot Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 528-529, 536.
  6. 1 2 3 "Hell Creek Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 584-586.
  7. 1 2 3 "Horseshoe Canyon Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 577.
  8. 1 2 3 "Jiufotang Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 565-66.
  9. 1 2 3 "Judith River Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 583.
  10. 1 2 3 "Lance Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 585-586.
  11. 1 2 3 "Morrison Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 543-545.
  12. 1 2 3 "Nemegt Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-597.
  13. 1 2 "Shaximiao Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 542, 550-1.
  14. 1 2 3 "Two Medicine Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 582-583.
  15. 1 2 3 "Wessex Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 558-559.
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Yixian Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 566-567.
  17. 1 2 3 "Late Cretaceous; North America; Texas; Aguja Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pp. 581-582.
  18. ↑ "Late Cretaceous; North America; Estado de Chihuahua, Mexico; Aguja Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 588.
  19. 1 2 "Barun Goyot Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595-597.
  20. 1 2 "Bayan Shireh Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-597.
  21. 1 2 "Ferris Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 585.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. 1 2 3 "Frenchman Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 578.
  24. 1 2 "Fruitland Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 580.
  25. 1 2 3 "Hastings Beds Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 559.
  26. 1 2 3 "Iren Dabasu Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598.
  27. 1 2 3 "Kimmeridge Clay Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 546.
  28. 1 2 "Lower Kirtland Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 580.
  29. 1 2 "Upper Kirtland Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 580-581.
  30. ↑ "Lameta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595.
  31. 1 2 3 "Laramie Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 581.
  32. 1 2 "Lower Lufeng Series Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 534.
  33. 1 2 3 "Oldman Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576.
  34. 1 2 3 "Oxford Clay Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 539-540.
  35. 1 2 "Rio Colorado Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603-4.
  36. 1 2 3 "Scollard Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 578.
  37. 1 2 3 "Tendaguru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 552.
  38. 1 2 3 "Xinminbao Group Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 567.
  39. ↑ 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.
  40. ↑ 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.
  41. ↑ 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.
  42. 1 2 3 "Late Cretaceous; South America; Provincia de Río Negro, Argentina; Allen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 604.
  43. ↑ "Almond Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 584.
  44. 1 2 3 "Early Cretaceous; North America; "Texas" and "Oklahoma;" Antlers Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 555.
  45. ↑ "Aréen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 591.
  46. 1 2 "Early Cretaceous; North America; "Maryland" and "Washington, D.C.;" Arundel Clay)." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 556.
  47. ↑ "Baharija Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 605.
  48. 1 2 "Bajo Barreal Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 602.
  49. ↑ "Bauxite of Cornet." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 562.
  50. ↑ "Calizas de La Huergina Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 561-62.
  51. 1 2 "Camadas de Alcobaça." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548-549.
  52. ↑ "Camadas de Guimarota." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548.
  53. ↑ "Castellar Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 560-1.
  54. ↑ "Chipping Norton Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 538,540.
  55. 1 2 "Clarens Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 536.
  56. 1 2 "Cloverly Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 556.
  57. 1 2 "Denver Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 581.
  58. 1 2 3 "Elrhaz Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 572.
  59. ↑ "Foremost Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576.
  60. ↑ "Forest Marble Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 538-40.
  61. 1 2 3 "Gosau Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 592.
  62. 1 2 3 "Gres a reptiles Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 589-90.
  63. ↑ "Hornerstown Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 586.
  64. 1 2 3 "Ischigualasto Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 528.
  65. 1 2 3 "Kaiparowits Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 579-80.
  66. ↑ "Knollenmergel Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 524.
  67. ↑ "Lecho Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603.
  68. 1 2 3 "Maevarano Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 605.
  69. 1 2 "Milk River Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576.
  70. ↑ "Minhe Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598-9.
  71. 1 2 3 "Niobrara Chalk Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 582,586.
  72. ↑ "Prince Creek Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 587.
  73. ↑ "Rio Neuquen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603.
  74. 1 2 3 "Sânpetru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 592-593.
  75. 1 2 3 "Stubensandstein Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 524.
  76. 1 2 3 "Tugulu Group Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 567.
  77. ↑ "Unidade Bombarral." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548-9.
  78. ↑ "Wangshi Group." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598, 600.
  79. 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.
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