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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

Aguja Formation

Campanian

Chihuahua
Texas

Blesa Formation

Early Cretaceous Teruel

Cerroa del Pueblo Formation

Late Cretaceous Coahuila

Dinosaur Park Formation

Late Campanian

Alberta

Frenchman Formation

Late Maastrichtian

Saskatchewan

Portland Formation

Pliensbachian to Toarcian

Connecticut
Massachusetts

Sânpetru Formation

Late Maastrichtian

Brasov județ

Wealden Group

Early Cretaceous England

Whitemud Formation

Maastrichtian Alberta

Eggs or nests

Name Age Country Province/State Description

Allen Formation

Middle Campanian

Mendoza
Neuquén
Río Negro

Allison Formation

Alberta

Anacleto Formation

Mendoza
Neuquén
Río Negro
Buenos Aires

Angostura Colorada Formation

Ankarafantsika Formation

Mahajanga

Aréen Formation

Late Cretaceous Huesca

Asencio Formation

Bagua Formation

Bajo de la Carpa Formation

Neuquén
Río Negro

Barun Goyot Formation

Middle Campanian (?)

Ömnögovi Province has a few alternate spellings

Bayan Shireh Formation

Cenomanian to Santonian

has many alternate spellings

Blesa Formation

Early Cretaceous Teruel
La Rioja

Calizus de Lychnus Formation

Camadas de Alcobaça

Kimmeridgian

Camadas de Guimarota

Late Jurassic

Camadas de Montejunto

Camarillas Formation

Teruel
La Rioja

Castellar Formation

Teruel
La Rioja

Cedar Mountain Formation

Barremian to basal Cenomanian

Utah

Colorado Formation

Dakota Formation

Nebraska

Dinosaur Park Formation

Late Campanian

Alberta

Djadochta Formation

Middle Campanian

has many alternate spellings

Doshuul Formation

El Gallo Formation

Baja California

Fruitland Formation

Colorado
New Mexico

Gaogou Formation

Henan

Gres d'Alet Formation

Hasandong Formation

Ialovachsk Formation

Intertrappean Beds

Andhra Pradesh

Iren Dabasu Formation

?Campanian

Inner Mongolia

Jindong Formation

Zhejiang

Kaiparowits Formation

Late Campanian

Utah

Kallanakurichi Formation

Tamil Nadu

Khodzhaosmansk Formation

Kitadani Formation

Aptian to Albian

Chūbu-chihō

Laguna Colorada Formation

?Norian

Santa Cruz

Lameta Formation

Gujarat
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra

Los Alamitos Formation

Río Negro Province

Los Blanquitos Formation

Salta

Manrakskaya Svita

Marilia Formation

Minas Gerais

Marnes rouges de Roquelongue Formation

Aude

Marnes Rouges Inferieures Formation

Aude

Majiacun Formation

Meeteetse Formation

Wyoming

Mercedes Formation

Mooreville Chalk Formation

Early Maastrichtian

Alabama
Mississippi

Morrison Formation

Time Colorado
Wyoming

Nanchao Formation

Henan

Nichkesaisk Formation

Oxford Clay

Callovian

England

Patcham Formation

England

Purbeck Beds

Berriasian

England

Quantou Formation

Jilin

Quxian Formation

Sichuan

Rio Colorado Formation

Neuquén
Río Negro Province

Sainshand Svita

Dornogovi Province

St. Mary River Formation

Alberta

Sangping Formation

Henan

Seonso Conglomerate Formation

Shanyang Formation

Shaanxi

Sigou Formation

Sichuan

Solnhofen limestone

Kimmeridgian

Bavaria

Stonesfield Slate

England

Subashi Formation

Xinjiang

Takli Formation

Tangshang Formation

Hebei

Tendaguru Formation

Kimmeridgian

Thomas Fork Formation

Idaho

Tremp Formation

Huesca Many in situ nesting sites of sauropods, designated UNESCO Global Geopark in 2018

Two Medicine Formation

?Late Santonian to Late Campanian

Montana

Villalba de la Sierra Formation

Vilquechico Formation

Wahweap Formation

Arizona
Utah

Wangshi Group

Shandong

Wayan Formation

Idaho

Wessex Formation

Barremian

England

Willow Creek Formation

Alberta

Yixian Formation

Barremian

Liaoning

Yuanpu Formation

Guangdong

Zhaoyin Formation

Zhoutian Formation Turonian–early Coniacian Jiangxi

Zoumagang Formation

Henan

Tracks

Main article: List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur tracks

See also

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

  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. ^ "Blesa Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 561.
  4. ^ "Example Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004).
  5. ^ "Dinosaur Park Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576-78.
  6. ^ "Frenchman Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 578.
  7. ^ "Portland Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 532.
  8. ^ "Sânpetru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 592-593.
  9. ^ "Late Cretaceous; South America; Provincia de Río Negro, Argentina; Allen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 604.
  10. "Allison Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 577.
  11. "Angostura Colorada Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603.
  12. "Ankarafantsika Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 605.
  13. "Aréen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 591.
  14. "Asencio Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 601.
  15. "Bagua Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 600.
  16. ^ "Barun Goyot Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595-597.
  17. ^ "Bayan Shireh Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-597.
  18. "Calizus de Lychnus Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 591.
  19. ^ "Camadas de Alcobaça." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548-549.
  20. "Camadas de Guimarota." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548.
  21. "Camadas de Montejunto." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548.
  22. "Cedar Mountain Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 554, 579.
  23. "Colorado Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 604.
  24. "Dakota Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 554, 579.
  25. ^ "Djadochta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-98.
  26. "Doshuul Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 564.
  27. ^ "Iren Dabasu Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598.
  28. ^ "Kaiparowits Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 579-80.
  29. ^ "Kitadani Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 570.
  30. ^ "Laguna Colorada Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 528.
  31. "Lameta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595.
  32. ^ "Mooreville Chalk Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 587.
  33. "Morrison Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 543-545.
  34. ^ "Oxford Clay Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 539-540.
  35. ^ "Purbeck Beds Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 558.
  36. ^ "Solnhofen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 549.
  37. ^ "Tendaguru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 552.
  38. ^ "Two Medicine Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 582-583.
  39. ^ "Wessex Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 558-559.
  40. ^ "Yixian Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 566-567.
  41. Zhu, Xufeng; Fang, Kaiyong; Wang, Qiang; Deng, Li; Liu, Yuchun; Wen, Jun; Wang, Xiaolin; Wang, Xuri (2021-05-04). "The first Similifaveoloolithidae (Wormoolithus luxiensis oogen. et oosp. nov.) from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, China". Historical Biology. 33 (5): 689–698. Bibcode:2021HBio...33..689Z. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1658093. ISSN 0891-2963.
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