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.

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Name Age Location Description

Aguja Formation[1]

Campanian[1]

Allen Formation

Barun Goyot Formation[3]

Middle Campanian (?)[3]

 has a few alternate spellings

Bayan Mandahu Formation

Bayan Shireh Formation[4]

Cenomanian to Santonian[4]

has many alternate spellings

Bissekty Formation[5]

Late Turonian to Coniacian[5]

Cedar Mountain Formation[6]

Barremian to basal Cenomanian

Cerro Barcino Formation

  Argentina

Dinosaur Park Formation[7]

Late Campanian[7]

Djadochta Formation[8]

Middle Campanian[8]

 has many alternate spellings

Elliot Formation[9]

 Norian to Sinemurian

Ferris Formation[10]

 Late Maastrichtian [11]

Frenchman Formation[12]

Late Maastrichtian[12]

Grès supérieurs Formation

Hell Creek Formation[13]

Late Maastrichtian[13]

Horseshoe Canyon Formation[14]

Early Maastrichtian[14]

Huincul Formation

Iren Dabasu Formation[15]

?Campanian[15]

Jiufotang Formation[16]

Aptian[16]

Judith River Formation[17]

Late Campanian[17]

Kaiparowits Formation

Kimmeridge Clay[18]

Kimmeridgian to Late Tithonian[18]

Kirtland Formation[19]

Late Campanian[19] to Early Maastrichtian[20]

Lameta Formation[21]

 Late Maastrichtian

Lance Formation[22]

Late Maastrichtian[22]

Laramie Formation[23]

Late Maastrichtian[23]

Lourinha Formation

Lufeng Formation[24]

Morrison Formation[25]

 Kimmeridgian to Early Tithonian

Nanxiong Formation

Nemegt Formation[26]

Early Maastrichtian[26]

has a few alternate spellings

Oldman Formation[27]

Late Campanian[27]

Oxford Clay[28]

Callovian[28]

Rio Colorado Formation[29]

 Campanian

Scollard Formation[30]

Late Maastrichtian[30]

Shaximiao Formation[31]

Bathonian to basal Oxfordian

Shishugou Formation

Tendaguru Formation[32]

Kimmeridgian[32]

Tremp Formation

 Spain

Trossingen Formation

Two Medicine Formation[33]

Campanian[33]

Wangshi Group[34]

Wessex Formation[35]

Barremian[35]

Yixian Formation[36]

Barremian[36]

Xinminbao Group[37]

Barremian to Albian[37]

6-10
Name Age Location Description

Adamantina Formation[38]

Late Cretaceous [39][40]

Allaru Formation[41]

Albian[41]

Alcobaça Formation[42]

Kimmeridgian[42]

Anacleto Formation

Antlers Formation[43]

Late Aptian to Middle Albian[43]

Arcillas de Morella Formation

Arén Formation[44]

Arundel Clay[45]

Middle Aptian to Early Albian.[45]

Baharija Formation[46]

Bajo Barreal Formation[47]

Cenomanian to Coniacian[47]

Bajo de la Carpa Formation

Bauxite of Cornet[48]

Canadon Asfalto Formation

Camadas de Guimarota[49]
Candeleros Formation

Castellar Formation[50]

Cerro del Pueblo Formation

Chipping Norton Formation[51]

Clarens Formation[52]

Sinemurian[52]

Cloverly Formation[53]

Late Aptian[53]

Csehbanya Formation

Denver Formation[54]

Maastrichtian[54]

Elrhaz Formation[55]

Late Aptian[55]

Foremost Formation[56]

Great Oolite Group

 UK

Gosau Group

 Germany

Grünbach Formation[57]

Campanian[57]

Griman Creek Formation

Gres a reptiles[58]

Early Maastrichtian[58]

Hornerstown Formation[59]

Ischigualasto Formation[60]

Carnian[60]

La Huérguina Formation[61]

Lecho Formation[62]

Lianmuqin Formation

Maevarano Formation[63]

Campanian[63]

Mata Amarilla Formation

Milk River Formation[64]

Early Campanian[64]

Minhe Formation[65]

Portezuelo Formation

Prince Creek Formation[66]

Rio Neuquen Formation[67]

Sânpetru Formation[68]

Late Maastrichtian[68]

Sao Khua Formation[69]

Hauterivian to Valanginian[69]

Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation

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Main article: List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera
Name Age Location Description

Alcântara Formation

Ampthill Clay[70]

 UK

Angostura Colorada Formation[71]

 Argentina

Bayin-Gobi Formation[72]

 China

Bungil Formation[73]

 Australia

Bushveld Sandstone[74]

 South Africa

Calcaire à Spatangues

 France

Calcaire de Caen[75]

 France

Ejinhoro Formation[76]

 China

Fruitland Formation

 USA

Hekou Group

 China

Kayenta Formation[77]

Sinemurian to Pliensbachian

 USA

Kitadani Formation[78]

Aptian to Albian[78]

 Japan[78]

La Amarga Formation[79]

Barremian[79]

 Argentina[79]

Marnes a Belemnopsis latesulcatus Formation

 France

Marnes de Dives

 France

Romualdo Formation

 Brazil

Snow Hill Island Formation

 Antarctica

Ulansuhai Formation[80]

Turonian

 China[80]

Xiaoyan Formation

 China

Xingezhuang Formation

 China

Xinlong Formation

 China

Xinpongnaobao Formation

 China

Xintiangou Formation

 China

Yuliangze Formation

 China

Zhenzhuchong Formation

 China

Ziliujing Formation

 China

Indeterminate
Main article: List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils

This list includes stratigraphic units that have produced dinosaur remains, although none of these remains have been referred to a specific genus.

Name Location Description

Almond Formation[81]

Description

Bahia Group[82]

Description

Chari Formation[83]

Description

Chota Formation[84]

Description

Crato Formation

Description

Gres a Avicula contorta[85]

Description

Guichon Formation[86]

Description

Hornitos Formation[87]

Description

Kaladongar Formation[88]

Description

Kallankurichi Formation[89]

Description

Kilmaluag Formation[90]

Description

Mahadek Formation[91]

Description

Marnes de Bleville[92]

Description

Patcham Formation[93]

Description

Rabekke Formation

Sables de Breze

Description

Sables de Cherre[94]

Description

Sables et Gres a Trigonia gibbosa

Description

Tiki Formation[95]

Description

Valtos Sandstone Formation

Description

Villigen Formation[96]

Description

Whitby Mudstone Formation[97]

Description

Yacoraite Formation[98]

Description

By preservation

Bone beds and mass graves
Name Age Location Description

Morrison Formation[25]

 Jurassic

Lagerstatten
Name Age Location Description

Solnhofen limestone

Kimmeridgian[99]

Yixian Formation[36]

Barremian[36]

See also
  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

Footnotes
  1. "Late Cretaceous; North America; Texas; Aguja Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pp. 581-582.
  2. "Late Cretaceous; North America; Estado de Chihuahua, Mexico; Aguja Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 588.
  3. "Barun Goyot Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595-597.
  4. "Bayan Shireh Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-597.
  5. "Bissekty Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 594.
  6. "Cedar Mountain Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 554, 579.
  7. "Dinosaur Park Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576-78.
  8. "Djadochta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-98.
  9. "Elliot Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 528-529, 536.
  10. "Ferris Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 585.
  11. 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.
  12. "Frenchman Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 578.
  13. "Hell Creek Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 584-586.
  14. "Horseshoe Canyon Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 577.
  15. "Iren Dabasu Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598.
  16. "Jiufotang Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 565-66.
  17. "Judith River Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 583.
  18. "Kimmeridge Clay Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 546.
  19. "Lower Kirtland Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 580.
  20. "Upper Kirtland Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 580-581.
  21. "Lameta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595.
  22. "Lance Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 585-586.
  23. "Laramie Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 581.
  24. "Lower Lufeng Series Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 534.
  25. "Morrison Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 543-545.
  26. "Nemegt Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-597.
  27. "Oldman Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576.
  28. "Oxford Clay Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 539-540.
  29. "Rio Colorado Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603-4.
  30. "Scollard Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 578.
  31. "Shaximiao Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 542, 550-1.
  32. "Tendaguru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 552.
  33. "Two Medicine Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 582-583.
  34. "Wangshi Group." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598, 600.
  35. "Wessex Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 558-559.
  36. "Yixian Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 566-567.
  37. "Xinminbao Group Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 567.
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. "Early Cretaceous; Australasia; Queensland, Australia; Allaru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 574.
  42. "Camadas de Alcobaça." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548-549.
  43. "Early Cretaceous; North America; "Texas" and "Oklahoma;" Antlers Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 555.
  44. "Aréen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 591.
  45. "Early Cretaceous; North America; "Maryland" and "Washington, D.C.;" Arundel Clay)." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 556.
  46. "Baharija Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 605.
  47. "Bajo Barreal Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 602.
  48. "Bauxite of Cornet." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 562.
  49. "Camadas de Guimarota." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548.
  50. "Castellar Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 560-1.
  51. "Chipping Norton Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 538,540.
  52. "Clarens Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 536.
  53. "Cloverly Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 556.
  54. "Denver Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 581.
  55. "Elrhaz Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 572.
  56. "Foremost Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576.
  57. "Gosau Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 592.
  58. "Gres a reptiles Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 589-90.
  59. "Hornerstown Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 586.
  60. "Ischigualasto Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 528.
  61. "La Huergina Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 561-62.
  62. "Lecho Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603.
  63. "Maevarano Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 605.
  64. "Milk River Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576.
  65. "Minhe Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598-9.
  66. "Prince Creek Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 587.
  67. "Rio Neuquen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603.
  68. "Sânpetru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 592-593.
  69. "Sao Khua Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 569.
  70. "Ampthill Clay." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 546.
  71. "Angostura Colorada Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603.
  72. "Bayin-Gobi Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 568.
  73. "Bungil Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 573.
  74. "Bushveld Sandstone Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 535, 528.
  75. "Calcaire de Caen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 541.
  76. "Ejinhoro Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 568.
  77. "Kayenta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 532.
  78. "Kitadani Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 570.
  79. "La Amarga Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 571.
  80. "Ulansuhai Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 568.
  81. "Almond Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 584.
  82. Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 570.
  83. "Chari Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 541.
  84. Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 600.
  85. "Gres a Avicula contorta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 523.
  86. "Guichon Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 601.
  87. "Los Hornitos Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 602.
  88. "Kaladongar Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 541.
  89. "Kallankurichi Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 593-600.
  90. Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 538.
  91. "Mahadek Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595.
  92. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Jurassic, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 545–549. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  93. "Patcham Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 541.
  94. Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 547.
  95. "Tiki Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 525.
  96. "Villigen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 549.
  97. "Whitby Mudstone Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 533.
  98. "Yacoraite Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603.
  99. "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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