List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils
This is a list of stratigraphic units dinosaur trace fossils have been recovered from. Although Dinosauria is a clade which includes the descendant taxon Aves (modern birds), this article covers only stratigraphic units containing Mesozoic forms. Units listed are all either formation rank or higher (e.g. group).
Coprolites
Name | Age | Country | Province/State | Description |
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Chihuahua |
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Early Cretaceous | Teruel | |||
Cerroa del Pueblo Formation[4] |
Late Cretaceous | Coahuila | ||
Alberta | ||||
Late Maastrichtian[6] |
Saskatchewan | |||
Pliensbachian to Toarcian[7] |
Connecticut Massachusetts |
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Late Maastrichtian[8] |
Brasov județ | |||
Early Cretaceous | England | |||
Maastrichtian | Alberta | |||
Eggs or nests
Name | Age | Country | Province/State | Description |
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Mendoza Neuquén Río Negro |
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Alberta | ||||
Mendoza Neuquén Río Negro Buenos Aires |
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Mahajanga | ||||
Aréen Formation[13] |
Late Cretaceous | Huesca | ||
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Bagua Formation[15] |
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Neuquén Río Negro |
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Middle Campanian (?)[16] |
Ömnögovi Province | has a few alternate spellings | ||
Cenomanian to Santonian[17] |
has many alternate spellings | |||
Early Cretaceous | Teruel La Rioja |
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Calizus de Lychnus Formation[18] |
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Camadas de Alcobaça[19] |
Kimmeridgian[19] |
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Late Jurassic | ||||
Teruel La Rioja |
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Castellar Formation[4] |
Teruel La Rioja |
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Barremian to basal Cenomanian |
Utah | |||
Nebraska | ||||
Alberta | ||||
Middle Campanian[25] |
has many alternate spellings | |||
Doshuul Formation[26] |
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Baja California | ||||
Colorado New Mexico |
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Henan | ||||
Gres d'Alet Formation[4] |
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Intertrappean Beds[4] |
Andhra Pradesh | |||
?Campanian[27] |
Inner Mongolia | |||
Zhejiang | ||||
Utah | ||||
Tamil Nadu | ||||
Chūbu-chihō | ||||
?Norian[30] |
Santa Cruz | |||
Gujarat Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra |
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Río Negro Province | ||||
Salta | ||||
Manrakskaya Svita[4] |
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Marilia Formation[4] |
Minas Gerais | |||
Aude | ||||
Aude | ||||
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Wyoming | ||||
Mooreville Chalk Formation[32] |
Early Maastrichtian[32] |
Alabama Mississippi |
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Time | Colorado Wyoming |
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Henan | ||||
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Callovian[34] |
England | |||
England | ||||
Purbeck Beds[35] |
England | |||
Jilin | ||||
Sichuan | ||||
Rio Colorado Formation[4] |
Neuquén Río Negro Province |
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Dornogovi Province | ||||
Alberta | ||||
Sangping Formation[4] |
Henan | |||
Seonso Conglomerate Formation[4] |
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Shaanxi | ||||
Sichuan | ||||
Solnhofen limestone[36] |
Kimmeridgian[36] |
Bavaria | ||
Stonesfield Slate[4] |
England | |||
Xinjiang | ||||
Hebei | ||||
Kimmeridgian[37] |
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Idaho | ||||
Huesca | Many in situ nesting sites of sauropods, designated UNESCO Global Geopark in 2018 | |||
Montana | ||||
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Arizona Utah |
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Shandong | ||||
Idaho | ||||
Barremian[39] |
England | |||
Alberta | ||||
Liaoning | ||||
Yuanpu Formation[4] |
Guangdong | |||
Zhaoyin Formation[4] |
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Henan | ||||
Tracks
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Sources
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp; ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
References
- "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.
- "Blesa Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 561.
- "Example Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004).
- "Dinosaur Park Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576-78.
- "Frenchman Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 578.
- "Portland Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 532.
- "Sânpetru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 592-593.
- "Late Cretaceous; South America; Provincia de Río Negro, Argentina; Allen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 604.
- "Allison Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 577.
- "Angostura Colorada Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603.
- "Ankarafantsika Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 605.
- "Aréen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 591.
- "Asencio Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 601.
- "Bagua Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 600.
- "Barun Goyot Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595-597.
- "Bayan Shireh Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-597.
- "Calizus de Lychnus Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 591.
- "Camadas de Alcobaça." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548-549.
- "Camadas de Guimarota." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548.
- "Camadas de Montejunto." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548.
- "Cedar Mountain Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 554, 579.
- "Colorado Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 604.
- "Dakota Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 554, 579.
- "Djadochta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-98.
- "Doshuul Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 564.
- "Iren Dabasu Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598.
- "Kaiparowits Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 579-80.
- "Kitadani Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 570.
- "Laguna Colorada Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 528.
- "Lameta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595.
- "Mooreville Chalk Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 587.
- "Morrison Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 543-545.
- "Oxford Clay Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 539-540.
- "Purbeck Beds Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 558.
- "Solnhofen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 549.
- "Tendaguru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 552.
- "Two Medicine Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 582-583.
- "Wessex Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 558-559.
- "Yixian Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 566-567.