List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

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

Body fossil sites

Name	Age	Location	Decription	Images
Adamantina Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Place	Description	Picture
Aguja Formation	Upper Cretaceous: Campanian	Place	Description	Picture
Allaru Formation	Lower Cretaceous	Australia
Allen Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Place	Description	Picture
Anacleto Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Place	Description	Picture
Antlers Formation	Lower Cretaceous	Place	Description	Picture
Argana Formation	Upper Triassic	Africa	Description	Picture
Arundel Clay	Lower Cretaceous	Place	Description	Picture
Baharija Formation	Upper Cretaceous	northern Africa;	Description	Picture
Bajo Barreal Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Argentina;	Description	Picture
Bajo de la Carpa Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Place	Description	Picture
Barun Goyot Formation	mid-late Campanian	Mongolia	has a few alternate spellings	Picture
Bauru Group	Upper Cretaceous	Brazil;	Description	Picture
Bayan Shireh Formation - has many alternate spellings	Upper Cretaceous	Mongolia;	Description	Picture
Bissekty Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Uzbekistan	Description	Picture
Bushveld Sandstone Formation	Upper Triassic	Africa	Description	Picture
Camadas de Alcobaça	Upper Jurassic	Portugal	Description	Picture
Cañadon Asfalto Formation	Middle Jurassic	Argentina;	Description	Picture
Candeleros Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Place	Description	Picture
Caturrita Formation	Upper Triassic	Brazil(Paleorrota);	Description	Picture
Cedar Mountain Formation	Lower Cretaceous: Barremian to basal Cenomanian		Description	Cedar Mountain formation (above).
Cerro Lisandro Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Place	Description	Picture
Chinle Formation	Upper Triassic	Place	Description	Picture
Clarens Formation	Lower Jurassic	southern Africa;	Description	Picture
Cloverly Formation	Lower Cretaceous: Aptian to Albian	Place	Description	Cloverly formation.
"Continental intercalaire"	Lower Cretaceous	northern Africa;	Description	Picture
Cooper Canyon Formation	Upper Triassic	North America	Description	Picture
Csehbánya Formation	Upper Cretaceous: Santonian	Hungary	Description	Picture
Dakota Formation	Upper Cretaceous: Cenomanian	Place	Description	Dakota formation.
Daohugou Beds	Middle or Late Jurassic?	China	Description	Picture
Dashanpu Formation	Middle Jurassic	China;	Description	Picture
Dashuigou Formation	Lower Cretaceous	China;	Description	Picture
Demopolis Chalk Formation	Upper Cretaceous	North America	Description	Demopolis Chalk Formation
Denver Formation	Upper Cretaceous: upper Maastrichtian	Place	Description	Picture
Dinosaur Park Formation	mid-late Campanian	Place	Description	Dinosaur Park formation.
Djadochta Formation	latest Santonian - early Campanian	Mongolia	has many alternate spellings	Djadochta formation.
Dockum Group Triassic	Time	Place	Description	Picture
Eijnhoro Formation	Lower Cretaceous	China;	Description	Picture
El Tranquilo Formation		southern Argentina	Description	Picture
Elliot Formation	uppermost Triassic - lowermost Jurassic	southern Africa;	Description	Picture
Elrhaz Formation	Lower Cretaceous	northern Africa;	Description	Picture
Feuerletten Formation	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Fleming Fjord Formation	Upper Triassic	Greenland	Description	Picture
Forest Sandstone	Lower Jurassic	Africa	Description
Frenchman Formation	Upper Cretaceous: upper Maastrichtian	Saskatchewan, Canada	Description	Picture
Glen Rose Formation	Lower Cretaceous: Albian	Place	Description	Picture
Gres a Avicula contorta	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Gres a reptiles	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Gres de l'Infralias	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Gosau Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Austria	Description	Picture
Hastings Beds	Lower Cretaceous	Weald of Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire	Description	Picture
Heiberg Formation	Upper Triassic	North America	Description	Picture
Hell Creek Formation	Upper Cretaceous: Upper Maastrichtian	Place	Description	Hell Creek formation.
Horseshoe Canyon Formation	Upper Cretaceous: uppermost Campanian-lowermost Maastrichtian	Place	Description	Horseshoe Canyon formation.
Huincul Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Argentina;	Description	Picture
Irati Formation	Permian	Brazil (Paleorrota);	Description	Picture
Iren Dabasu Formation	Upper Cretaceous	China;	Description	Picture
Ischigualasto Formation	Upper Triassic	Argentina;	Description	Ischigualasto formation.
Jiufotang Formation	early Aptian	China	Description	Picture
Judith River Formation	mid-late Campanian	Montana	Description	Picture
Kaiparowits Formation	Upper Cretaceous: Campanian	Place	Description	Picture
Kayenta Formation	Lower Jurassic	Place	Description	Kayenta formation.
Khukhtek Formation - like most Mongolian formations, has many alternate spellings	Lower Cretaceous	Mongolia;	Description	Picture
Kimmeridge Clay	Upper Jurassic	Britain	Description	Picture
Kirtland Formation	Upper Cretaceous: upper Campanian		Description	Picture
Kitadani Formation	Lower Cretaceous	Japan;	Description	Picture
Knollenmergel	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Kota Formation	Lower Jurassic	India;	Description	Picture
La Amarga Formation	Lower Cretaceous	Argentina;	Description	Picture
Laguna Colorada Formation	Upper Triassic	South America	Description	Picture
Lameta Formation	Upper Cretaceous	India;	Description	Picture
Lance Formation	Upper Cretaceous: upper Maastrichtian	Place	Description	Lance formation.
Laramie Formation	Upper Cretaceous: upper Maastrichtian	Place	Description	Laramie formation.
Lohan Cura Formation	Lower Cretaceous	Argentina;	Description	Picture
Los Colorados Formation	Upper Triassic	Argentina;	Description	Picture
Lossie Mouth Sandstone Formation	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Blue Lias Formation	Lower Jurassic	south England	Description	Blue Lias formation.
Lower Lufeng Series	Lower Jurassic	China;	Description	Picture
Maevarano Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Madagascar;	Description	Picture
Magnesian Conglomerate	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Malargüe Group	Upper Cretaceous	Argentina;	Description	Picture
Maleri Formation	lower Upper Triassic	India	Description	Picture
Marnes Irisees Superieures Formation	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Middle Stubensandstein	Upper Triassic	Germany	Description	Picture
Milk River Formation	Upper Cretaceous: Santonian	Place	Description	Picture
Mooreville Chalk Formation	Upper Cretaceous	North America	Description	Picture
Morrison Formation	Time	Upper Jurassic: upper Oxfordian to lower Tithonian	Description	Morrison formation.
Mount Kirkpatrick Formation	Triassic — Middle Jurassic	Antarctica
Mpandi Formation	Upper Triassic	Africa	Description	Picture
Nam Phong Formation	Upper Triassic	Asia	Description	Picture
Navajo Sandstone	Lower Jurassic	Place	Description	Navajo Sandstone.
Nemegt Formation - has a few alternate spellings	Upper Cretaceous	Mongolia;	Description	Picture
Neuquén Group	Upper Cretaceous	Argentina;	Description	Picture
New Oxford Formation	Upper Triassic	North America	Description	Picture
Newark Supergroup	Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic	Place	Description	Picture
Niobrara Chalk	Upper Cretaceous: Coniacian to lower Campanian	Place	Description	Picture
Obere Bunte Mergel	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Oldman Formation	Upper Cretaceous: middle Campanian	Place	Description	Picture
Oxford Clay	Middle Jurassic	Britain	Description	Oxford Clay.
Paw Paw Formation	Lower Cretaceous: upper Albian		Description	Picture
Pekin Formation	Upper Triassic	North America	Description	Picture
Plottier Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Place	Description	Picture
Portezuelo Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Place	Description	Picture
Portland Formation	Lower Jurassic	Place	Description	Portland Formation.
Purbeck Beds	Tithonian-Berriasian	southeast England	Description	Picture
Quebrada del Barro Formation	Upper Triassic	South America	Description	Picture
Rhaetic Beds	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Rhatsandtein	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Rio do Rastro Formation	Permian	Brazil (Paleorrota);	Description	Picture
Sanga do Cabral Formation	Lower Triassic	Brazil (Paleorrota);	Description	Picture
Sânpetru Formation	Upper Cretaceous: Maastrichtian	Romania	Description	Picture
Santa Maria Formation	Upper Triassic	Argentina;	Description	Picture
Santa Maria Formation	Upper Triassic and middle Triassic	Brazil (Paleorrota);	Description	Picture
Santa Marta Formation	Upper Cretaceous	Antarctica
Santana Formation	Lower Cretaceous	Brazil;	Description	Picture
Sao Khua Formation	Lower Cretaceous	Thailand;	Description	Picture
Scollard Formation	Upper Cretaceous: upper Maastrichtian		Description	Scollard formation.
Shishugou Formation	Upper Jurassic	China;	Description	Picture
Solnhofen limestone	Upper Jurassic	Germany	Description	Picture
Snow Hill Island Formation	Late Campanian to Maastrichtian	Antarctica	Description	Picture
St. Mary Formation	Upper Cretaceous: lowermost Maastrichtian	Place	Description	Picture
Stubensandstein	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Tecovas Formation	Upper Triassic	North America	Description	Picture
Tegana Formation	Lower Cretaceous	northern Africa;	Description	Picture
Tendaguru Formation	Upper Jurassic	Tanzania;	Description	Picture
Trossingen Formation	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Tuchengzi Formation	Lower Cretaceous	China;	Description	Picture
Tugulu Group	Lower Cretaceous	China;	Description	Picture
Two Medicine Formation	Upper Cretaceous: middle to upper Campanian		Description	Two Medicine formation.
Udurchukan Formation - also called Tsagayan Formation and correlated with the Yuliangze Formation which is immediately across the border in China	Upper Cretaceous	extreme eastern Russia;	Description	Picture
Ulansuhai Formation	Lower Cretaceous	China;	Description	Picture
Unidade Amoreira-Porto Novo	Upper Jurassic	Portugal	Description	Picture
Upper Karoo Sandstone Formation	Lower Jurassic	Africa	Description
Vulcanodon Beds	Lower Jurassic	Africa	Description
Weald Clay	Lower Cretaceous	southeast England	Description	Picture
Wealden Group	Lower Cretaceous	southeast England	Description	Picture
Wessex Formation	Lower Cretaceous	Place	Description	Picture
Westbury Formation	Upper Triassic	Europe	Description	Picture
Winton Formation	Lower Cretaceous	Australia
Wonthaggi Formation	Lower Cretaceous	Australia
Wucaiwan Formation	Middle Jurassic	China;	Description	Picture
Xinminbao Group	Lower Cretaceous	China;	Description	Picture
Yixian Formation	Barremian - early Aptian	China	Description	Sinosauropteryx fossil from the Yixian Formation.

See also

• Dinosaur
• Fossil
• List of fossil sites
• Mesozoic
• Stratigraphy
• Taphonomy