List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

This is a partial list of Dinosaur-Bearing Rock Formations.

Body fossils

Main article: List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils

Name	Age	Country	State/Province	Description
Bahariya Formation	Late Cretaceous: Early Cenomanian	Egypt	Matrouh Governorate	Spinosaur specimen described by Ernst Stromer in 1915.
Blue Lias Formation	Late Triassic - Early Jurassic	United Kingdom	England  Wales	Marine sediments of shale and limestone rock with Scelidosaurus and Sarcosaurus.
Calcaires nankin Formation	Late Cretaceous	France
Candeleros Formation	Late Cretaceous: Cenomanian	Argentina	Río Negro Province  Neuquén  Mendoza
Cedar Mountain Formation	Early Cretaceous	United States	Utah	Known for Gastonia, Utahraptor, among others.
Cerro Lisandro Formation	Late Cretaceous: Cenomanian - Turonian	Argentina	Neuquén
Chaomidziani Formation
Chenini Formation	Early Cretaceous: Albian	Tunisia	Tataouine Governorate	Spinosaurus & Carcharodontosaurus were excavated from this site.
Daohugou Beds	Middle or Late Jurassic?	China	Inner Mongolia	Mudstones ranging from Inner Mongolia to Liaoning, China. Fossils known include Scansoriopteryx.
Echkar Formation	Late Cretaceous: Cenomanian	Niger		Remains of the boar crocodile - Kaprosuchus was found here.
Elliot Formation	Upper Triassic - Lower Jurassic	South Africa  Lesotho	Free State Qacha's Nek District	Massospondylus, one of the first named dinosaurs was found here.
Elrhaz Formation	Early Cretaceous	Niger		Remains of Suchomimus and Nigersaurus were excavated from here.
El Tranquilo Formation	Late Triassic	Argentina	Santa Cruz Province
Huincul Formation	Late Cretaceous: Cenomanian	Argentina	Río Negro Province  Neuquén
Horseshoe Canyon Formation	Late Campanian and Early Maastrichtian	Canada	Alberta	Albertosaurus, Edmontonia, Edmontosaurus etc were excavated from here, along with mammals like didelphodons.
Iren Nor Formation
Itombe Formation	Late Turonian	Angola	Bengo Province	Partial skeleton of Angolatitan, from Tadi Beds, first sauropod found in Angola.
Judith River Formation	Late Cretaceous	United States  Canada	Montana  Alberta  Saskatchewan	Stretches from Montana to Alberta and Saskatchewan; Has produced some of the best preserved dinosaur specimens known including Albertosaurus, Brachylophosaurus, Edmontonia and others.
Kem Kem Beds	Late Cretaceous : Cenomanian	Morocco  Algeria		Remains of Laganosuchus and Elosuchus are found at these sites.
Khooldzin Svita	Early Cretaceous	Mongolia		Like most Mongolian formations, has many alternate spellings.
Khukhtek Formation	Early Cretaceous	Mongolia	Dornogovi Province Övörkhangai Province	Like most Mongolian formations, has many alternate spellings like - Hühteeg Svita.
Kirkwood Formation	Early Cretaceous	South Africa	Eastern Cape Western Cape	Partial skeleton of Nqwebasaurus thwazi and partial skull of adult Paranthodon africanus were found here.
Lameta Formation	Upper Cretaceous: Maastrichtian	India	Gujarat Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra	Near complete skeleton of Indosuchus, and partial skeletons of Jubbulpuria and Rajasaurus were excavated here.
Loe-ein Formation
Lourinhã Formation	Late Jurassic	Portugal	Centro, Portugal	Fauna similar to Morrison Formation and Tendaguru Formation.
Mount Kirkpatrick Formation	Triassic - Early Jurassic	Antarctica	-	Cryolophosaurus and Glacialisaurus
Nanxiong Formation	Late Cretaceous	China	Guangdong	Red sandstone and clay sediments in Guangdong Province, with fauna similar to that of Nemegt Formation.
Nemegt Formation	Late Cretaceous	Mongolia		A rich assemblage of dinosaurs is known from this formation in the Gobi Basin, including Tarbosaurus, Saurolophus, Gallimimus, Mononykus. Due to the lack of radiometric data, it isn't possible to verify the exact age of the sediments. Also like most Mongolian formations, has many alternate spellings like - Nemegtskaya Svita.
New Egypt Formation	Late Cretaceous	United States
North Horn Formation	Late Cretaceous	United States	Utah	Tyrannosaurus and Alamosaurus remains were excavated from this site.
Obernkirchen Sandstein	Early Cretaceous	Germany	Niedersachsen
Plottier Formation	Late Cretaceous	Argentina	Río Negro Province  Neuquén
Point Loma Formation[1]	Late Cretaceous	United States	California
Reline Dabasu Formation
Sanga do Cabral Formation	1 !Lower Triassic	Brazil	Rio Grande do Sul
Snow Hill Island Formation	Late 084 !Campanian to 6 !Maastrichtian	Antarctica	-
Tacuarembó Formation	Late Triassic	Uruguay	Tacuarembó Department
Tendaguru Formation	Late Jurassic	Tanzania		Fossils of Kentrosaurus is found only at Tendaguru.
Tilougguit Formation	Middle Jurassic	Morocco	Tadla-Azilal	Nearly complete skeleton with skull of an Atlasaurus was excavated from here.
Tiouraren Formation	Early Cretaceous	Niger		Skull and several skeletons of Jobaria and partial skull of Afrovenator were found
Turkana Grits	Late Cretaceous	Kenya	Rift Valley Province	Possible remains of Spinosaurs are located here.
Udurchukan Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Russia	Amur Oblast	Also known as Tsagayan Formation and correlated with the Yuliangze Formation which is immediately across the border in China.
Urbion Group[1]	Early Cretaceous	Spain	Burgos Province

Containing trace fossils

Main article: List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils

See also

	Dinosaurs portal
	Paleontology portal
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Footnotes

1. ^ ^{a b} "Example Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 582.

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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