Mowry Shale Formation

Mowry Shale Formation: Mowry Shale Formation

Type Geological formation

The Mowry Shale Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

See also

List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

Footnotes

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^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.

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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Mesozoic geologic formations
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Mowry Shale Formation
Type	Geological formation

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