Site
|
Group, Formation, or Unit
|
Age
|
Continent
|
Country
|
Noteworthiness
|
|
Anjar Formation
|
Maastrichtian
|
Asia
|
India
|
Dinosaur eggs
|
Afar Depression |
|
Pliocene |
Africa |
Ethiopia |
|
Buia,
Danakil Depression |
|
Pleistocene |
Africa |
Eritrea |
Hominin
|
Ahl al Oughlam |
|
Late
Pliocene |
Africa |
Morocco |
|
|
Ameki Formation |
Middle
Eocene |
Africa |
Nigeria |
|
Awash River |
|
Pliocene |
Africa |
Ethiopia |
Hominin
|
Cradle of Humankind
|
|
Pliocene –
Pleistocene |
Africa |
South Africa |
Hominin
|
|
Karoo Supergroup:
Elliot Formation |
Triassic –
Jurassic |
Africa |
South Africa |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Karoo Supergroup:
Bahariya Formation |
Late
Cretaceous |
Africa |
Egypt |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Karoo Supergroup:
Clarens Formation |
Early
Jurassic |
Africa |
South Africa |
Dinosaurs, Dinosaur eggs, Bony fish
|
|
Karoo Supergroup:
Molteno Formation |
Late
Triassic |
Africa |
South Africa |
|
|
Elrhaz Formation |
Early Cretaceous |
Africa |
Niger |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Hadar Formation |
Pliocene |
Africa |
Ethiopia |
|
|
Bouri Formation |
Pleistocene |
Africa |
Ethiopia |
Hominin
|
Hoedjiespunt |
|
Pleistocene |
Africa |
South Africa |
Hominin
|
Hoffmeyr |
|
Pleistocene |
Africa |
South Africa |
Hominin
|
Alnif |
|
Cambrian – Late
Permian |
Africa |
Morocco |
Trilobites
|
Jebel Irhoud |
|
Pleistocene |
Africa |
Morocco |
Hominin
|
|
Jebel Qatrani Formation |
Eocene –
Oligocene |
Africa |
Egypt |
Mammals, birds
|
Golden Gate Highlands National Park |
Karoo Supergroup |
Permian –
Early Jurassic |
Africa |
Southern Africa |
|
Klasies River Caves |
|
Pleistocene (
Middle Stone Age) |
Africa |
South Africa |
Hominin: Early Humans
|
Koobi Fora |
|
Pliocene –
Pleistocene |
Africa |
Kenya |
Hominin, stone tools
|
Koro Toro |
|
Pliocene |
Africa |
Chad |
Hominin
|
Laetoli |
|
Pliocene –
Pleistocene |
Africa |
Tanzania |
Hominin footprints
|
Ledi-Geraru |
|
Pliocene (
Piacenzian) |
Africa |
Ethiopia |
Hominin:
LD 350-1, oldest fossil in genus
Homo
[1]
|
Lothagam |
|
Miocene –
Pliocene |
Africa |
Kenya |
Hominin and other mammals
|
|
Maevarano Formation |
Late Cretaceous |
Africa |
Madagascar |
Dinosaurs (Non-Avian), Crocodylomorphs
|
Kem Kem Beds |
|
Late Cretaceous |
Africa |
Morocco |
Non-Avian Dinosaurs, Crocodylomorphs, etc.
|
Kamabai rock shelter |
|
Pleistocene |
Africa |
Sierra Leone |
Hominin tools
|
Olduvai Gorge |
|
Pliocene |
Africa |
Tanzania |
Hominin
|
|
Omo Kibish Formation (= Kibish Formation) |
Pliocene –
Pleistocene |
Africa |
Ethiopia |
Hominin:
australopithecine remains and stone tools
|
Orapa |
|
Late Cretaceous |
Africa |
Botswana |
Flowering Plants, Insects
|
|
Qasr el Sagha Formation |
Eocene |
Africa |
Egypt |
|
Rusinga Island |
|
Miocene |
Africa |
Kenya |
Hominin, mammals
|
|
Shungura Formation |
Pliocene – Early
Pleistocene |
Africa |
Ethiopia |
Hominin tools
|
Taung |
|
Pliocene |
Africa |
South Africa |
Hominin
|
|
Tegana Formation |
Early
Cretaceous |
Africa |
Morocco |
Non-Avian Dinosaurs
|
|
Tendaguru Formation |
Late Jurassic |
Africa |
Tanzania |
Non-Avian Dinosaurs, etc.
|
|
Usno Formation |
Pliocene – Early
Pleistocene |
Africa |
Ethiopia |
|
West Coast Fossil Park |
|
Terminal
Miocene/Early
Pliocene |
Africa |
South Africa |
|
Yengema cave |
|
Neolithic |
Africa |
Sierra Leone |
Hominin tools
|
Seymour Island |
Cross Valley Formation |
Late
Paleocene |
Antarctica |
|
|
Seymour Island
[Note 2] |
La Meseta Formation |
Eocene |
Antarctica |
|
Birds, particularly
penguins
|
Seymour Island |
López de Bertodano Formation |
Late Cretaceous – Early
Paleocene (
Maastrichtian –
Danian) |
Antarctica |
|
Non- Avian Dinosaurs, Birds
|
Seymour Island
[Note 2] |
Sobral Formation |
Paleocene (Danian) |
Antarctica |
|
|
Vega Island |
López de Bertodano Formation |
Late Cretaceous – Early
Paleocene (Maastrichtian – Danian) |
Antarctica |
|
Non-Avian Dinosaurs, Birds
|
Longing Peninsula |
Nordenskjöld Formation |
Jurassic |
Antarctica |
|
|
|
Hanson Formation |
Early
Jurassic |
Antarctica |
|
Dinosaurs,
prosauropods, trees
|
|
Prebble Formation |
Middle
Jurassic |
Antarctica |
|
|
James Ross Island
|
|
Late Cretaceous |
Antarctica |
|
Dinosaurs
|
|
Falla Formation |
Triassic |
Antarctica |
|
|
|
Fremouw Formation |
Triassic |
Antarctica |
|
|
Cumulus Hills |
Thrinaxodon Col |
Triassic |
Antarctica |
|
|
|
Aguja Formation |
Late
Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
Texas and Mexico:
Chihuahua,
Coahuila |
|
Ashfall Fossil Beds |
Ash Hollow Formation (
Ogallala Group) |
Miocene (Clarendonian) |
North America |
US:
Nebraska |
Mammals
[Note 1]
|
|
Astoria Formation |
Miocene |
North America |
US:
Oregon |
|
Cutler Fossil Site |
|
late
Pleistocene |
North America |
US:
Florida |
humans and vertebrates
|
Page-Ladson (
Aucilla River) |
|
Pleistocene/
Holocene |
North America |
US:
Florida |
Hominin, human/mastodon coexistence
|
|
Austin Chalk |
Late
Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
Texas |
|
|
Aztec Sandstone |
Early
Jurassic |
North America |
US:
Nevada,
California |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Bainbridge Formation |
Silurian |
North America |
US:
Missouri |
|
|
Bakken Formation |
Late Devonian – Early
Carboniferous (Early
Mississippian) |
North America |
US:
Montana,
North Dakota and Canada:
Saskatchewan |
|
Cleveland's Glen,
Oneida County,
New York |
Beecher's Trilobite Bed |
Ordovician |
North America |
US:
New York |
Trilobites
[Note 1]
|
|
Bighill Creek Formation |
Late
Pleistocene |
North America |
Canada |
|
|
Big Sandy Formation |
Miocene |
North America |
US:
Arizona |
|
Mount Blanco
[Note 2] |
Blanco Formation |
Pliocene/
Pleistocene |
North America |
US:
Kansas,
Texas |
Blancan fauna
|
Blue Beach |
|
Tournaisian |
North America |
Canada:
Nova Scotia |
[Note 1]
|
|
Bobcaygeon Formation |
Ordovician |
North America |
Canada:
Ontario |
|
Bone Cabin Quarry |
|
Jurassic |
North America |
US:
Wyoming |
Non-Avian Dinosaurs
|
|
Bone Valley Formation |
Miocene-
Pliocene |
North America |
US:
Florida |
|
|
Breathitt Group |
Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) |
North America |
US:
Kentucky |
|
|
Bridger Formation |
Eocene |
North America |
US:
Wyoming |
|
|
Bromide Formation |
Ordovician (Sandbian) |
North America |
US:
Oklahoma |
Trilobites,
Echinoderms
|
|
Brule Formation |
Oligocene |
North America |
US:
South Dakota |
Mammals, sunfish, cat fish
|
Kootenay National Park
[Note 2] |
Burgess Shale |
Cambrian (Albertan) |
North America |
Canada:
British Columbia |
[Note 1]
|
Calvert Cliffs State Park
[Note 2] |
Calvert Formation |
Miocene |
North America |
US:
Maryland |
Middle Miocene Climate Transition and
Middle Miocene disruption
|
|
Cannonball Formation |
Paleocene |
North America |
US:
North Dakota |
|
|
Cañón del Tule Formation |
Cretaceous (
Maastrichtian) |
North America |
Mexico |
|
|
Cedar Mountain Formation |
Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
Colorado and
Utah |
Non-Avian Dinosaurs, Amphibians, Fish, Mammals, other reptiles
|
|
Cerro del Pueblo Formation |
Cretaceous (
Campanian) |
North America |
Mexico |
Dinosaurs, etc.
|
|
Cerro Grande Formation |
Cretaceous (
Maastrichtian) |
North America |
Mexico |
|
|
Cerro Huerta Formation |
Cretaceous (
Campanian-
Maastrichtian) |
North America |
Mexico |
|
|
Chandler Bridge Formation |
Late
Oligocene (Chattian) |
North America |
US:
South Carolina |
|
Goodsell Ridge,
Isle La Motte (
Lake Champlain)
[Note 2] |
Chazy Formation |
Ordovician |
North America |
US:
Vermont |
Early Reef:
bryozoa,
corals,
stromatoporoids
|
|
Chuckanut Formation |
Eocene |
North America |
US:
Washington state |
Fossil trackways from birds, mammals and turtles
|
|
Cincinnatian Group |
Late
Ordovician |
North America |
US:
Ohio,
Indiana,
Kentucky |
|
|
Clarita Formation |
Silurian |
North America |
US:
Oklahoma |
|
|
Clinton Group
|
Silurian |
North America |
US: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia |
|
Como Bluff |
Cloverly Formation |
Early Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
Montana,
Wyoming |
Non-Avian Dinosaurs, some mammals, turtles, crocodilians, and fish
|
|
Cobourg Formation |
Ordovician |
North America |
Canada: Ontario |
|
|
Coon Creek Formation |
Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
North America |
US:
Tennessee and
Mississippi |
- Marine reptiles, particularly mosasaurs and plesiosaurs
- Invertebrates:
Turritella (sea snails),
bryozoans, clams, crabs, shrimp and some sharks
|
|
Cooper Formation |
Late
Oligocene (Chattian) |
North America |
US:
South Carolina |
|
|
Dakota Formation |
Late Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
Iowa,
Kansas,
Minnesota,
Nebraska,
Wisconsin |
Some
Non-Avian Dinosaurs and
Dinosaur
tracks
|
|
Decorah Shale
(
Galena Group)
|
Ordovician |
North America |
US:
Minnesota and Upper Midwest[
ambiguous] |
Trilobites, brachiopods, horn
corals,
gastropods,
crinoids, and bryozoans
|
|
Delorme Formation |
Silurian-
Devonian |
North America |
Canada:
Yukon |
|
|
Demopolis Chalk Formation |
Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
Alabama,
Mississippi,
Tennessee |
|
Denali National Park and Preserve
[Note 3] |
Cantwell Formation |
Late Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
Alaska |
Non-Avian Dinosaur
tracks,
[2] plants, insects
|
Dinosaur Provincial Park
[Note 2] |
Dinosaur Park Formation |
Cretaceous (Campanian) |
North America |
Canada: Alberta |
Non- Avian Dinosaurs
|
Dinosaur State Park |
|
Jurassic |
North America |
US:
Connecticut |
Dinosaur
tracks
|
Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park |
|
Eocene |
North America |
Canada:
British Columbia |
Insects and
fish
|
Drumheller, Badlands |
|
Mesozoic |
North America |
Canada:
Alberta |
|
Ellisdale Fossil Site
[Note 3] |
Marshalltown Formation |
Cretaceous (Campanian) |
North America |
US:
New Jersey |
[Note 1]
|
|
Eutaw Formation |
Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
Alabama,
Georgia,
Mississippi |
Dinosaur,
mosasaur, and
pterosaur
|
Falls of the Ohio
[Note 3] |
Jefferson Limestone |
Devonian |
North America |
US: Indiana |
Corals (
Tabulate coral and
Rugosa
|
Florissant Fossil Beds |
Florissant Formation |
Eocene (Priabonian) |
North America |
US:
Colorado |
Insects
|
Fossil Prairie Park |
|
Devonian |
North America |
US:
Iowa |
|
Mazon Creek |
Francis Creek Shale |
Carboniferous (
Pennsylvanian) |
North America |
US:
Illinois |
[Note 1]
|
Ghost Ranch |
|
Triassic |
North America |
US:
New Mexico |
Non-Avian Dinosaurs
[Note 1]
|
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument |
Glenns Ferry Formation |
Pliocene/
Pleistocene |
North America |
US:
Idaho |
Hagerman horse ('American Zebra'),
Camelops
|
Dinosaur Valley State Park
[Note 2] |
Glen Rose Formation |
Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) |
North America |
US:
Texas |
Dinosaur footprints
|
|
Gower Formation |
Silurian |
North America |
US:
Iowa |
|
Gray Fossil Site |
|
Miocene |
North America |
US:
Tennessee |
Mammals
|
|
Green River Formation |
Eocene |
North America |
US:
Utah,
Colorado, and
Wyoming |
Insects
[Note 1]
|
Fossil Butte National Monument
[Note 3] |
Green River Formation |
Eocene |
North America |
US:
Utah,
Colorado, and
Wyoming |
Fishes
[Note 1]
|
|
Gunflint Chert |
Late
Archaean – Early
Proterozoic |
North America |
Canada: western
Ontario & US:
Minnesota (Gunflint Range) |
Stromatolite colonies of
cyanobacteria
|
|
Hawthorne Formation |
Miocene |
North America |
US:
South Carolina[verification needed] to
Florida |
|
|
Hell Creek Formation |
Cretaceous (
Maastrichtian) |
North America |
US:
Montana,
North Dakota,
South Dakota, and
Wyoming |
|
Hilda mega-bonebed
[Note 3] |
Dinosaur Park Formation |
Cretaceous (
Maastrichtian) |
North America |
Canada:
Alberta |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Hornerstown Formation |
Cretaceous/
Paleocene |
North America |
US:
New Jersey |
|
|
Huerfano Formation |
Eocene |
North America |
US:
Colorado |
|
|
Hungry Hollow Formation |
Devonian |
North America |
Canada:
Ontario |
|
Joggins Fossil Cliffs |
|
Carboniferous |
North America |
Canada:
Nova Scotia |
[Note 1]
|
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument |
John Day Formation |
Oligocene –
Miocene |
North America |
US:
Oregon |
Mammals: dogs, cats, oreodonts, saber-toothed cats, horses, camels, and rodents
|
*
Jurassic National Monument in the San Rafael Swell |
Morrison Formation |
Jurassic |
North America |
US:
Utah |
Non- Avian Dinosaurs and other vertebrates
|
Clarno Unit,
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument |
Clarno Formation |
Eocene |
North America |
US:
Oregon |
Plants: tropical and subtropical nuts, fruits, roots, branches, and seeds
|
|
Judith River Formation |
Cretaceous (Campanian) |
North America |
US:
Montana |
|
|
Kaiparowits Formation |
Cretaceous (Campanian) |
North America |
US:
Utah |
Dinosaurs, turtles, crocodilians
|
|
Kanawha Formation |
Pennsylvanian |
North America |
US:
West Virginia |
|
- Zion National Park
- Capitol Reef National Park
- Canyonlands National Park
|
Kayenta Formation (
Glen Canyon Group) |
Jurassic |
North America |
US:
Arizona,
Colorado,
Nevada, and
Utah |
Non- Avian Dinosaurs and other vertebrates
|
|
Keasey Formation |
Late
Eocene/Early
Oligocene[verification needed] |
North America |
US:
Oregon |
|
Kishenehn |
Kishenehn Formation |
Mid-
Eocene |
North America |
US:
Montana |
Insects
|
Klondike Mountain near Republic, Washington
[Note 2] |
Klondike Mountain Formation |
Eocene (Ypresian) |
North America |
US:
Washington |
Plants and
Insects
[Note 1]
|
Krukowski Quarry |
|
Cambrian |
North America |
US:
Wisconsin |
|
La Brea Tar Pits |
|
Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) |
North America |
US:
California |
[Note 1]
|
|
Lance Formation (= Lance Creek Fm.) |
Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
North America |
US:
North Dakota and
Wyoming |
|
|
Las Encinas Formation |
Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
North America |
Mexico |
|
|
Las Imágenes Formation |
Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
North America |
Mexico |
|
Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site |
Woodbury Formation
|
Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
New Jersey |
Dinosaurs:
Hadrosaurus
|
Franceville basin |
Francevillian B Formation
|
Palaeoproterozoic |
Africa |
Gabon |
Possible earliest evidence for multicellularity in fossil record, known for
Francevillian Biota
|
|
Lennep Formation |
Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
Montana |
|
|
Lindsay Formation |
Ordovician |
North America |
Canada:
Ontario |
|
|
Linton Formation |
Carboniferous (
Pennsylvanian) |
North America |
US:
Indiana |
|
|
Lockatong Formation |
Triassic |
North America |
US:
New Jersey |
|
|
Ludlow Formation (= Slope Fm.) |
Paleocene: Tiffanian |
North America |
US:
North Dakota[verification needed] |
|
The Mammoth Site |
|
Pleistocene: Rancholabrean |
North America |
US:
South Dakota |
[Note 1]
|
Manchester Quarry |
|
Triassic |
North America |
US:
Connecticut |
|
Manuels River |
|
Cambrian |
North America |
Canada:
Newfoundland |
Trilobites
|
|
Mascall Formation |
Miocene |
North America |
US:
Oregon |
|
|
Mattoon Formation |
Pennsylvanian |
North America |
US:
Illinois |
|
McAbee Fossil Beds |
|
Eocene |
North America |
Canada:
British Columbia |
[Note 1] Plants, insects, and fish
|
|
McKenzie Formation |
Silurian |
North America |
US:
West Virginia |
|
|
Medina Formation |
Silurian |
North America |
US:
New York and Canada:
Ontario |
|
Melbourne Bone Bed |
|
Pleistocene |
North America |
US:
Florida |
Megafauna,
Hominin (the "Melbourne Man")
|
Miguasha National Park |
|
Devonian (Famennian) |
North America |
Canada: Québec |
[Note 1]
|
Mistaken Point |
Mistaken Point Formation |
Ediacaran |
North America |
Canada |
Ediacara biota (early multicellular life)
|
|
Mooreville Chalk Formation |
Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
Alabama and
Mississippi |
|
|
Monterey Formation |
Miocene |
North America |
US:
California |
|
Como Bluff |
Morrison Formation |
Late
Jurassic |
North America |
Canada/United States (Great Plains) |
|
|
Naco Formation |
Pennsylvanian, Desmoinesian |
North America |
US:
Arizona |
|
|
Nanjemoy Formation |
Eocene |
North America |
US:
Virginia |
|
|
Navesink Formation |
Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
New Jersey |
Non Avian Dinosaurs and shell beds
|
|
Niobrara Formation
|
Cretaceous |
North America |
US:
Kansas,
Nebraska |
Marine reptiles
[Note 1]
|
|
Nye Formation |
Miocene |
North America |
US:
Oregon |
|
Edson Quarry |
Ogallala Formation |
Miocene/
Pliocene |
North America |
US:
Kansas |
|
|
Ogallala Formation |
Miocene/
Pliocene |
North America |
US:
Texas |
|
|
Oldman Formation |
Cretaceous (Campanian) |
North America |
Canada:
Alberta |
Non- Avian Dinosaurs
|
Champlain Bridge (Ottawa), Quebec side |
Pamelia Formation |
Late Ordovician |
North America |
Canada:
Quebec, Gatineau, Aylmer |
|
|
Pikeville Formation |
Pennsylvanian |
North America |
US:
Kentucky |
|
Pipe Creek Sinkhole |
|
Pliocene |
North America |
US:
Indiana |
|
|
Pittsburg Bluff Formation |
Late
Eocene/Early
Oligocene[verification needed] |
North America |
US:
Oregon |
|
Minehaha Falls State Park |
Platteville Limestone |
Ordovician |
North America |
US:
Minnesota |
|
Minneapolis–Saint Paul (Mississippi River bluffs) |
Platteville Limestone |
Ordovician |
North America |
US:
Minnesota |
|
|
Pocahontas Formation |
Pennsylvanian |
North America |
US:
West Virginia,
Virginia |
|
Burgoon Run in
Blair County, Pennsylvania
[Note 2] |
Pocono Formation |
Carboniferous (Mississippian) |
North America |
US:
Maryland,
Pennsylvania,
West Virginia |
|
|
Price West Formation |
Early
Mississippian |
North America |
US:
West Virginia |
|
|
Puget Group |
Late
Eocene |
North America |
US: Washington |
|
Lee Creek Mine |
Pungo River Formation |
Miocene |
North America |
US:
North Carolina |
|
Purgatoire River track site |
|
Late
Jurassic |
North America |
US:
Colorado |
Dinosaurs:
Footprints
|
|
Quarry Mountain Formation |
Silurian |
North America |
US:
Oklahoma |
|
|
Rancho Nuevo Formation |
Cretaceous –
Paleocene (Maastrichtian-Danian) |
North America |
Mexico |
|
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument |
Rattlesnake Formation |
Miocene (Tortonian-Messinian) |
North America |
US:
Oregon |
|
Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite |
Sundance Formation |
Middle
Jurassic |
North America |
US:
Wyoming |
Dinosaurs:
Footprints
|
|
Rexroad Formation |
Pliocene |
North America |
US:
Kansas |
|
Rincón Colorado |
|
Cretaceous |
North America |
Mexico:
Coahuila |
|
|
Ripley Formation |
Cretaceous |
North America |
US: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee |
|
|
Rosebud Formation |
Miocene |
North America |
US:
South Dakota |
|
|
Round Mountain Silt |
Middle Miocene (Barstovian) |
North America |
US:
California |
|
Walcott-Rust quarry |
Rust Formation |
Late
Ordovician |
North America |
US: New York |
[Note 1]
|
|
San Diego Formation |
Middle-Late Pliocene[verification needed] |
North America |
US:
California |
|
Schoonmaker Reef and
Soldiers' Home Reef |
|
Silurian |
North America |
US:
Wisconsin |
Reefs (the first discovered in North America)
|
|
Sentinel Butte Formation |
Paleocene[verification needed] |
North America |
US: North Dakota [verification needed] |
|
|
Sheep Creek Formation |
Miocene |
North America |
US:
Nebraska |
|
|
St. Clair Limestone |
Silurian |
North America |
US:
Arkansas |
|
|
St. Peter Sandstone |
Ordovician |
North America |
US:
Minnesota,
Missouri,
Illinois,
Nebraska,
South Dakota |
|
|
Syracuse Formation |
Silurian |
North America |
US:
New York |
|
Como Bluff |
Sundance Formation |
Late
Jurassic |
North America |
US:
Wyoming |
|
Path 15 bone bed, San Joaquin Valley |
Temblor Formation |
Miocene |
North America |
US:
California |
|
|
Tepetate Formation |
Cretaceous – Middle
Eocene |
North America |
Mexico |
|
Wichita Falls
[Note 2] |
Texas Red Beds |
Permian |
North America |
US:
Texas |
Tetrapods
|
Thomas Farm Site |
|
Miocene |
North America |
US:
Florida |
|
Wannagan Creek site,
Theodore Roosevelt National Park |
Tongue River Formation (= Bullion Creek Fm.) |
Paleocene: Tiffanian |
North America |
US: North Dakota |
Mammals, reptiles, birds
|
|
Traverse Group (Petoskey) |
Devonian |
North America |
US:
Michigan |
|
|
Trenton Group |
Ordovician |
North America |
Canada:
Quebec |
|
|
Tuscarora Formation |
Silurian |
North America |
US:
Pennsylvania,
Maryland,
Virginia,
West Virginia |
|
Egg Mountain site
[Note 3] |
Two Medicine Formation |
Cretaceous (Campanian) |
North America |
US:
Montana |
Dinosaurs, particularly eggs and young
|
|
Washakie Formation |
Eocene |
North America |
US:
Wyoming |
|
Wheeler Amphitheater in Millard County, Utah
[Note 2] |
Wheeler Shale |
Cambrian |
North America |
US:
Utah |
Trilobites
[Note 1]
|
|
Whitby Formation |
Ordovician |
North America |
Canada:
Ontario |
|
|
White River Formation |
Late
Eocene – mid-
Oligocene |
North America |
US:
Colorado |
|
|
Widder Formation |
Devonian |
North America |
Canada:
Ontario |
|
|
Willwood Formation |
Paleocene/
Eocene |
North America |
US:
Wyoming |
Trace fossils
|
|
Woodbine Formation |
Cretaceous (Cenomanian) |
North America |
US:
Texas |
Dinosaurs and
crocodilians
|
|
Woodbury Formation |
Cretaceous (Cenomanian) |
North America |
US: Haddonfield, New Jersey |
|
Ziegler Reservoir fossil site ('Snowmastodon Site') |
|
Pleistocene (
Illinoian (stage)) |
North America |
US:
Colorado |
Mastodon and other ice age vertebrates
|
Zion National Park |
Navajo Sandstone |
Triassic –
Jurassic |
North America |
US:
Utah |
?
|
|
Zuni Basin |
Cretaceous |
North America |
US: New Mexico |
|
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
|
Arikaree Group
- Gering Formation
- Monroe Creek formation
- Harrison Formation
|
Miocene |
North America |
US:
Nebraska |
|
Potomac River |
Aquia Formation |
Paleocene |
North America |
US:
Maryland and
Virginia |
|
|
Arkona Shale |
Devonian |
North America |
Canada: Ontario |
|
Waco Mammoth National Monument |
|
Pleistocene |
North America |
US: Texas |
|
Tanis |
Hell Creek Formation |
End of
Cretaceous/start of
Cenozoic (65.76 Ma ± 0.15 Mya) |
North America |
United States |
Apparent
Lagerstätte and
killing field capturing the first minutes and hours after the
Chicxulub impactor and initiation of the
KPg extinction event
|
|
Balabansai Formation |
Late
Jurassic |
Asia |
Kazakhstan |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Barun Goyot Formation |
Late Cretaceous |
Asia |
Mongolia |
|
|
Bayan Shireh Formation |
Late Cretaceous |
Asia |
Mongolia |
|
|
Baynunah Formation |
Late
Miocene |
Asia |
United Arab Emirates |
|
Bes-Konak |
|
Oligocene |
Asia |
Turkey |
Insects
|
|
Bissekty Formation |
Cretaceous |
Asia |
Uzbekistan |
|
|
Bostobynskaya Formation (= Bostobe Formation) |
Late Cretaceous (Turonian–Campanian) |
Asia |
Kazakhstan |
Dinosaurs
|
Bugti Hills |
|
Oligocene |
Asia |
Pakistan |
Mammals (
Haplorhini)
|
|
Chaomidianzi Formation |
Early
Cretaceous (Barremian-Aptian) |
Asia |
China |
|
|
Dabeigou Formation |
Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
|
|
Rizal, Kalinga |
Pleistocene |
Asia |
Philippines |
Hominin
|
Callao Cave,
Cagayan Valley |
|
Pleistocene |
Asia |
Philippines |
Hominin
|
Tabon Cave,
Palawan |
|
Pleistocene |
Asia |
Philippines |
Hominin
|
|
Dainichi Formation |
Late
Pliocene |
Asia |
Japan |
|
|
Shaximiao Formation |
Middle
Jurassic |
Asia |
China |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Dashuigou Formation |
Early Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
Dinosaurs
|
Flaming Cliffs
[Note 2] |
Djadochta Formation |
Late Cretaceous |
Asia |
Mongolia |
Dinosaurs, eggs
|
|
Dumugol Formation |
Early
Ordovician |
Asia |
Korea |
|
|
Ejinhoro Formation |
Early Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Es Skhul |
Pliocene |
Asia |
Israel: Mount Carmel |
Hominin
|
|
Fangou Formation |
Paleocene |
Asia |
China |
|
|
Hakel |
Cretaceous |
Asia |
Lebanon |
|
|
Huadian Formation |
Eocene |
Asia |
China |
|
|
Indricotherium Formation |
Oligocene |
Asia |
Kazakhstan |
|
|
Irdin Manha Formation |
Eocene |
Asia |
Mongolia |
|
|
Iren Dabasu Formation |
Late Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Iwaki Formation |
Early
Oligocene |
Asia |
Japan |
|
|
Jindong Formation |
Cretaceous |
Asia |
Korea |
|
|
Jiufotang Formation |
Early
Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
Feathered dinosaurs, birds,
pterosaurs
|
Kampong Trach cave |
|
Miocene |
Asia |
Cambodia |
|
|
Khukhtek Formation |
Early Cretaceous |
Asia |
Mongolia |
Dinosaurs
|
Balasinor (Raiyoli) |
|
|
Asia |
India |
Dinosaurs
|
Deh-e Alireza,
Kerman (
fa) |
|
Jurassic |
Asia |
Iran |
Dinosaur
footprints, fish
|
|
Kishima Group
- Daimyoji Formation
- Funazu Formation
- Itanoura Formation
- Kakinoura Formation
- Kishima Formation
- Magome Formation
- Matsushima Formation
- Okinoshima Formation
- Oshima Formation
|
Late Eocene/Early Oligocene |
Asia |
Japan |
|
Kitadani Quarry |
Kitadani Formation |
Early Cretaceous |
Asia |
Japan |
|
|
Kızılırmak Formation
[3]
|
Tortonian |
Asia |
Turkey:
Evren,
Ankara |
|
|
Kota Formation |
Early
Jurassic |
Asia |
India |
|
Tategahana,
Lake Nojiri |
|
Pleistocene (
Paleolithic) |
Asia |
Japan |
Paleolithic artifacts
|
|
Lameta Formation |
Late Cretaceous |
Asia |
India |
|
Lang Trang Caves |
|
Pleistocene |
Asia |
Vietnam |
|
Liang Bua Cave |
|
Pleistocene |
Asia |
Indonesia: Flores |
Hominin
|
|
Lufeng Formation |
Jurassic |
Asia |
China |
|
Luoping
[4] |
|
Middle
Triassic |
Asia |
China: Yunnan |
|
Chengjiang County |
Maotianshan Shales |
Cambrian |
Asia |
China |
[Note 1]
|
Minatogawa Limestone Quarry |
|
Neogene |
Asia |
Japan |
Hominin
|
|
Nagura Formation |
Middle
Miocene |
Asia |
Japan |
|
Mandla Plant Fossils National Park |
|
Late
Jurassic-
Paleogene |
Asia |
India |
|
|
Maleri Formation (
Upper and
Lower) |
Late
Triassic |
Asia |
India |
|
|
Minhe Formation |
Late Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Nemegt Formation |
Late Cretaceous |
Asia |
Mongolia |
Dinosaur fossil, Riverine animals: fish, turtles, crocodilians, birds
|
Ngandong (
Bengawan Solo River) |
|
Pleistocene |
Asia |
Indonesia: Java |
Hominin:
Solo Man
|
|
Oi Formation |
Early
Miocene |
Asia |
Japan |
|
Qafzeh cave |
|
Pliocene |
Asia |
Israel:
Nazareth |
Hominin
|
Sambungmacan |
|
Pleistocene |
Asia |
Indonesia |
|
Sangiran |
|
Pleistocene |
Asia |
Indonesia |
Hominin
|
Shivalik Fossil Park |
Siwaliks formations |
Pleistocene |
Asia |
India |
|
|
Sao Khua Formation |
Early Cretaceous |
Asia |
Thailand |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Shishugou Formation |
Late
Jurassic |
Asia |
China |
Dinosaurs
|
Tabun Cave |
|
Pliocene |
Asia |
Israel:
Mount Carmel |
Hominin
|
Tham Khuyen cave |
|
Jurassic |
Asia |
Vietnam |
|
|
Tiaojishan Formation |
Middle
Jurassic |
Asia |
China |
Plants, with dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and insects
|
Trinil |
|
Pleistocene |
Asia |
Indonesia:
Java |
Hominin, "
Java Man"
|
|
Tuchengzi Formation |
Early
Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
|
|
Tugulu Group |
Early
Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
|
|
Udurchukan Formation |
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian?) |
Asia |
Russia |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Uhangri Formation |
Late
Cretaceous |
Asia |
Korea |
Pterosaur
tracks
|
|
Wucaiwan Formation |
Middle
Jurassic |
Asia |
China |
|
|
Xiagou Formation |
Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
|
|
Xinminbao Group
- Chijinbao Formation
- Digou Formation
- Zhonggou Formation
|
Early
Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
|
|
Xiushan Formation |
Early Silurian (Llandovery) |
Asia |
China:
Guizhou |
|
|
Yamaga Formation |
Late
Oligocene |
Asia |
Japan |
|
|
Yixian Formation |
Early Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
[Note 1]
Jehol Biota, See also:
Paleobiota of the Yixian Formation
|
|
Yuliangze Formation |
Late Cretaceous |
Asia |
China |
|
|
Yushima Formation (= Tatsunokuchi Formation) |
Early
Pliocene |
Asia |
Japan |
|
Baissa |
Zaza Formation |
Early Cretaceous |
Asia |
Russia |
Insects:
Pterygota
|
|
Zhongming Formation |
Devonian |
Asia |
China |
|
Zhoukoudian |
|
Pleistocene |
Asia |
China |
Hominin, "
Peking Man"
|
Shanwang National Geological Park |
Shanwang Formation |
Miocene |
Asia |
China:
Shandong |
Exceptional preservation of external body features such as skin, hair, scales and feathers
|
Aetokremnos |
|
Holocene (
Mesolithic) |
Europe |
Cyprus |
|
Monte San Giorgio |
|
Triassic |
Europe |
Switzerland and Italy |
|
Aix-en-Provence |
|
Oligocene |
Europe |
France |
Insects, fishes
|
Ana |
|
Late
Cretaceous |
Europe |
Spain |
|
Atapuerca |
|
Pleistocene (
Lower Paleolithic) |
Europe |
Spain |
Hominin
|
Aust Cliff |
|
Triassic |
Europe |
England |
Insects,
Rhaetic bone bed
|
Batallones |
|
Miocene |
Europe |
Spain |
Carnivora
|
|
Bembridge Marls |
Oligocene |
Europe |
England |
|
Bois d'Asson |
|
Oligocene |
Europe |
France |
Insects
|
|
Borgloon Formation |
Oligocene |
Europe |
Belgium |
|
Schmerling Caves |
|
Holocene |
Europe |
Belgium |
hominin,
Engis 2 was the first Neanderthal fossil ever found
|
Buñol |
|
Miocene |
Europe |
Spain |
|
|
Calizas de La Huérguina Formation |
Cretaceous (Barremian) |
Europe |
Spain |
|
Dinosaur Quarry of Altamura |
|
Upper Cretaceous |
Europe |
Italy |
Dinosaur footprints (at least four thousand)
|
Ceprano |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
Italy |
Hominin,
Homo cepranensis (single find)
|
Céreste |
|
Oligocene |
Europe |
France |
Insects, fishes
|
Isernia La Pineta |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
Italy |
|
Baccinello |
|
Miocene |
Europe |
Italy |
Hominin:
Oreopithecus bambolii
|
Binagadi asphalt lake |
|
Early
Pleistocene |
Europe |
Azerbaijan |
Birds, Mammals
|
|
Crevillente |
Miocene |
Europe |
Spain |
|
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
France |
Hominin: Crô-Magnon
|
Cuevas de los Murciélagos |
|
Pleistocene/
Holocene |
Europe |
Spain:
La Palma,
Canary Islands |
|
Dmanisi |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
Georgia |
Hominin (Homo erectus georgicus), stone tools
|
Dob's Linn |
|
Ordovician-
Silurian boundary |
Europe |
Scotland |
Graptolites
|
Dorkovo |
|
Early
Pliocene |
Europe |
Bulgaria |
Mastodon
|
Enspel |
|
Oligocene |
Europe |
Germany |
Insects, mammals
|
Es Pouás |
|
Pleistocene/
Holocene |
Europe |
Spain:
Ibiza (
Balearic Islands) |
|
Fossil Grove |
Limestone Coal Formation (
Clackmannan Group) |
Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) |
Europe |
Scotland: Glasgow |
Plants
|
|
Fur Formation |
Early
Eocene |
Europe |
Denmark |
[Note 1]
|
|
Gram Formation |
Middle-Late
Miocene |
Europe |
Denmark |
|
|
Gauja Formation |
Middle
Devonian |
Europe |
Estonia and
Latvia |
|
Geisel valley |
|
Eocene |
Europe |
Germany |
|
Gilwern Hill |
|
Ordovician |
Europe |
Wales |
|
Gotland |
|
Silurian |
Europe |
Sweden |
|
Grès à Reptiles |
|
Jurassic |
Europe |
France |
Dinosaurs
|
Guimarota |
|
Late
Jurassic |
Europe |
Portugal |
Dinosaurs and mammals
|
|
Hampstead Formation |
Oligocene |
Europe |
England |
|
Hrútagíl |
Mókollsdalur formation |
Miocene |
Europe |
Iceland |
Insects
|
|
Hunsrück Slates |
Devonian |
Europe |
Germany:
Bundenbach |
[Note 1]
|
Insect Limestone |
|
Late
Eocene |
Europe |
England (
Isle of Wight) |
Insects
|
Jurassic Coast |
|
Triassic,
Jurassic and
Cretaceous |
Europe |
England |
Ammonites and reptiles
|
|
Kattendijk Sands |
Pliocene |
Europe |
Belgium |
Auk (birds)
|
Kleinkems |
|
Oligocene |
Europe |
Germany |
Insects
|
Kostolac-Viminacium |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
Serbia |
|
Kozarnika |
|
Pleistocene (
Lower Paleolithic) |
Europe |
Bulgaria |
Hominin: Early human symbolic behavior
|
Hušnjak hill (
Krapina) |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
Croatia |
|
La Chapelle-aux-Saints |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
France |
Hominin: Neanderthal burial
|
La Ferrassie |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
France |
Hominin
|
La Roma |
|
Miocene |
Europe |
Spain |
|
Las Hoyas |
|
Cretaceous |
Europe |
Spain |
Dinosaurs
[Note 1]
|
|
Liedena Sandstone |
Late
Eocene (Priabonian) |
Europe |
Spain: Navarra |
|
Lo Hueco |
|
Cretaceous |
Europe |
Spain |
|
|
London Clay |
Eocene |
Europe |
England |
[Note 1]
|
|
Löwenstein Formation |
Late
Triassic |
Europe |
Germany |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Lourinhã Formation
|
Late
Jurassic |
Europe |
Portugal |
|
Lyme Regis |
|
Jurassic |
Europe |
England:
Dorset |
Jurassic Coast
|
|
Maastricht Formation |
Cretaceous |
Europe |
Benelux |
Dinosaurs
|
Maltravieso Cave |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
Spain |
|
Mauer |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
Germany |
Hominin
|
Messel Pit |
Messel Oil Shale |
Eocene |
Europe |
Germany |
Geiseltalian flora and fauna
[Note 1]
|
Monte Bolca |
|
Eocene |
Europe |
Italy |
[Note 1]
|
Murero |
|
Cambrian |
Europe |
Spain |
|
Neandertal (e.g.,
Kleine Feldhofer Grotte) |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
Germany |
Hominin
|
Öhningen |
|
Miocene |
Europe |
Germany |
Insects, fishes
|
|
Oxford Clay |
Jurassic |
Europe |
England |
Fish and invertebrates
|
Paris Basin (
Argille Plastique) |
|
Early
Eocene |
Europe |
France |
|
Pobiti Kamani |
|
Mesozoic |
Europe |
Bulgaria |
|
Pontnewydd Cave |
|
Pleistocene (
Paleolithic) |
Europe |
Wales |
Hominin: Neanderthals
|
Quercy Phosphorites |
|
Eocene/
Oligocene |
Europe |
France |
|
Radoboj |
|
Miocene |
Europe |
Croatia |
Insects
|
Repedea Hill Fossil Site |
|
Neogene |
Europe |
Romania |
|
Cozla Fossil Site |
|
Oligocene |
Europe |
Romania |
|
Pietricica Fossil Site |
|
Oligocene |
Europe |
Romania |
|
Cernegura Fossil Site |
|
Oligocene |
Europe |
Romania |
|
Rhynie, Aberdeenshire |
Rhynie Chert |
Devonian |
Europe |
Scotland |
Plants,
Cyanobacteria, first
Hexapoda
[Note 1]
|
Riodeva |
|
Jurassic/
Cretaceous |
Europe |
Spain |
Dinosaurs
|
Rott |
|
Oligocene |
Europe |
Germany |
Insects, fishes
|
|
Sajóvölgyi Formation |
Miocene (
Serravallian) |
Europe |
Hungary |
|
|
Sânpetru Formation |
Cretaceous (
Maastrichtian) |
Europe |
Romania |
|
Sansan |
|
Miocene |
Europe |
France |
Hominin: Pliopithecus
|
Santa Ana Cave |
|
Pleistocene |
Europe |
Spain |
|
Sieblos Dysodil |
|
Oligocene |
Europe |
Germany |
|
Slieve Anierin |
|
Namurian |
Europe |
Ireland |
Goniatites, and
Bivalvia, marine and coastal fauna.
|
|
Solnhofen limestone |
Jurassic |
Europe |
Germany |
[Note 1]
|
Stránská skála |
Moravian Karst formation |
Pleistocene |
Europe |
Czech Republic:
Moravia |
Marine and coastal fauna,
fishes,
birds,
mammals
|
Trachilos footprints |
|
Miocene |
Europe |
Greece |
Hominin footprints
|
Turritellenplatte |
|
Miocene (mid-Burdigalian) |
Europe |
Germany:
Baden-Württemberg |
Gastropods:
sea snail
Turritella turris
|
|
Upper Valdarno |
Pleistocene (Villafranchian) |
Europe |
Italy:
Tuscany |
|
|
Valkenburg Formation |
Cretaceous |
Europe |
Belgium |
|
Donetsk |
|
Carboniferous |
Europe |
Ukraine |
Plants
|
Razdolne |
|
Devonian |
Europe |
Ukraine |
|
Venta del Moro |
|
Miocene |
Europe |
Spain |
|
Venta Micena |
|
Pliocene |
Europe |
Spain |
|
|
Wessex Formation |
Cretaceous |
Europe |
England |
|
Willershausen |
|
Pliocene |
Europe |
Germany |
Insects
|
Untermassfeld |
|
Early Pleistocene |
Europe |
Germany |
Hominin (controversial)
|
Alcoota |
|
Miocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
Northern Territory |
Marsupials, birds and crocodiles
|
|
Apex Chert |
Archaean |
Oceania |
Australia:
Western Australia (
Marble Bar) |
|
Saint Bathans Fauna |
Bannockburn Formation |
Miocene |
Oceania |
New Zealand:
Otago |
|
Bluff Downs |
Allingham Formation |
Pliocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
Queensland |
wetland fauna
|
Bullock Creek |
Camfield Fossil Beds |
Miocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
Northern Territory |
Marsupials
|
Canowindra-
Gooloogong |
|
Devonian |
Oceania |
Australia:
New South Wales |
[Note 1]
|
Cape Range National Park |
|
Miocene-
Pleistocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
Western Australia |
Coral reefs, marine and coastal fauna
|
Cuddie Springs |
|
Pleistocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
New South Wales |
Megafauna/human interaction (bones with stone artifacts)
|
Curio Bay |
|
Jurassic |
Oceania |
New Zealand:
Southland (
The Catlins) |
Petrified forest
|
Denmark Hill Insect Bed |
|
Late Triassic |
Oceania |
Australia: Ipswich,
Queensland |
Insects
|
Dinosaur Cove |
|
Cretaceous |
Oceania |
Australia:
Victoria |
Dinosaurs
|
Dinosaur Dreaming |
|
Cretaceous |
Oceania |
Australia:
Victoria |
Mammals
|
Ditjimanka LF |
|
Oligocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
South Australia |
|
Ediacara Hills |
|
Ediacaran |
Oceania |
Australia:
South Australia (
Flinders Ranges) |
Ediacara biota (early multicellular life)
[Note 1]
|
|
Emu Bay Shale |
Early
Cambrian |
Oceania |
Australia:
South Australia (
Kangaroo Island) |
[Note 1]
|
|
Etadunna Formation |
Oligocene/
Miocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
South Australia |
|
Foulden Maar |
|
Early
Miocene |
Oceania |
New Zealand:
Otago |
|
Georgina Basin |
|
Neoproterozoic – late
Paleozoic |
Oceania |
Australia:
Northern Territory,
Queensland |
|
|
Gogo Formation |
Devonian |
Oceania |
Australia:
Western Australia |
[Note 1]
|
|
Goldie Chert |
Middle-Late
Cambrian |
Oceania |
Australia:
Victoria |
|
Grenfell fossil site |
Hunter Siltstone Formation |
Devonian |
Oceania |
Australia:
New South Wales |
Fishes
|
|
Greta Siltstone Formation |
Late
Pliocene |
Oceania |
New Zealand:
Canterbury (
Hurunui) |
|
|
Heathcote siltstone |
Early
Silurian- Late
Devonian |
Oceania |
Australia:
Victoria |
[
citation needed]
|
Horseshoe Bay Limestone Downs |
|
Cretaceous |
Oceania |
New Zealand:
Waikato |
[
citation needed]
|
Kangaroo Wells |
|
Miocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
Northern Territory |
[
citation needed]
|
|
Knocklofty Formation |
Early
Triassic |
Oceania |
Australia:
Tasmania |
[
citation needed]
|
|
Knowsley East Formation |
Middle-late
Cambrian |
Oceania |
Australia:
Victoria |
[
citation needed]
|
Lake Callabonna |
|
Pleistocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
South Australia |
Marsupials, birds
|
Lake Mungo |
|
Pleistocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
New South Wales |
Hominin
|
Lake Ngapakaldi to Lake Palankarinna Fossil Area |
|
Pliocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
South Australia (Tirari Desert) |
Variety of vertebrates
|
Lancefield Swamp |
|
Pleistocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
Victoria |
Australian megafauna, mostly
Macropus giganteus
|
Lightning Ridge |
|
Cretaceous |
Oceania |
Australia:
New South Wales |
Mammals
|
Mammoth Cave |
|
Pleistocene? |
Oceania |
Australia:
Western Australia |
|
|
Mampuwordu Sands |
Miocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
South Australia |
|
Murgon fossil site |
|
Eocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
Queensland (south-east) |
Mammals (
Tingamarra Fauna)
|
Naracoorte Caves |
|
Pleistocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
South Australia |
Australian megafauna,
World Heritage List
|
Pindai Caves |
|
Holocene |
Oceania |
New Caledonia |
Hominin, Birds
|
Quanbun |
|
Pliocene/
Miocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
Western Australia |
|
Riversleigh |
|
Oligocene/
Miocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
Queensland |
[Note 1]
|
Talbragar fossil site |
|
Jurassic |
Oceania |
Australia:
New South Wales (central west) |
|
|
Tangahoe Formation |
Late
Pliocene |
Oceania |
New Zealand:
Taranaki |
|
|
Waipara Greensand |
Paleogene |
Oceania |
New Zealand:
Canterbury |
|
|
Wianamatta Shale and
Ashfield Shale |
Late
Triassic |
Oceania |
Australia:
New South Wales (
Sydney) |
Prehistoric amphibians (
Capitosauridae,
Trematosaurinae),
ray finned fish (
Semionotiformes and
Palaeoniscidae),
cartilaginous fish (
Xenacanthida) and insects (
Protorthoptera)
[5]
|
Great Otway National Park |
|
Cretaceous |
Oceania |
Australia:
Victoria |
|
Otway Basin
- Dutton Way – Early Pliocene
- Arch site – Middle Miocene
- Clifton Banks – Middle to late Miocene
- Forsyth's Banks and Fossil rock stack – Early Pliocene
- Spring Creek – Late Miocene to Early Pliocene
- Kawarren – Late Oligocene
- Leigh River – Early Miocene
- Hopkins River – Middle to Late Miocene
- Gibson's Steps – Bairnsdalian (Middle Miocene)
- Curdie – Balcombian (Middle Miocene)
- Princetown Beach – Late Oligocene
- Castle Cove – Late Oligocene
|
|
Late Oligocene – Early Pliocene |
Oceania |
Australia:
Victoria |
|
Tinguiririca |
Abanico Formation |
Oligocene (Rupelian) |
South America |
Chile |
|
|
Acre Conglomerate |
Miocene (Huayquerian) |
South America |
Brazil |
|
|
Allen Formation |
Cretaceous (Campanian – Maastrichtian) |
South America |
Argentina |
dinosaurs (including eggs),
pterosaurs, and mammals
|
|
Anacleto Formation |
Cretaceous (Campanian) |
South America |
Argentina |
Dinosaurs (eggs),
mammals, bird
footprints
|
|
Andalhualá Formation |
Miocene/
Pliocene |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Bajo de la Carpa Formation |
Cretaceous (Santonian) |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Bahía Inglesa Formation |
Middle Miocene-
Late Pliocene |
South America |
Chile |
|
Bauru Basin |
Bauru Group |
Cretaceous |
South America |
Brazil |
Dinosaurs
|
|
Camacho Formation |
Miocene |
South America |
Uruguay |
|
Candeleros Hill, Neuquén Province
[Note 2] |
Candeleros Formation |
Cretaceous (Cenomanian) |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Capadare Formation |
Middle Miocene |
South America |
Venezuela |
|
Paleorrota |
Caturrita Formation |
Triassic (
Carnian – Norian) |
South America |
Brazil:
Rio Grande do Sul |
|
Cerrejón |
Cerrejón Formation |
Middle-Late
Paleocene |
South America |
Colombia |
|
Cerro Ballena |
|
Plio–
Pleistocene |
South America |
Chile |
Cetaceans
|
|
Cerro Bandera Formation |
Miocene |
South America |
Argentina |
|
Chapadmalal Sea Cliff |
Chapadmalalan |
Pliocene |
South America |
Argentina |
Mammals,
Terror birds,
Paleoburrows
|
|
Deseado Formation |
Oligocene |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Ensenada Formation |
Pleistocene |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Huincul Formation |
Late Cretaceous (
Cenomanian) |
South America |
Argentina |
Dinosaurs, including
Argentinosaurus huinculensis and
Mapusaurus
|
|
Irati Formation |
Early Permian (Artinskian)
[6] |
South America |
Brazil |
Mesosaurs
|
|
Ischigualasto Formation |
Triassic |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Ituzaingó Formation |
Late
Miocene (Huayquerian) |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Jaguel Formation |
Late
Cretaceous/Early
Paleocene (Maastrichtian – Danian) |
South America |
Argentina |
|
Cerro Cuadrado Petrified Forest |
La Matilde Formation |
Middle to Late
Jurassic (Bathonian – Oxfordian) |
South America |
Argentina |
Dinosaurs
|
Laguna Manantiales Farm |
La Matilde Formation |
Middle to Late
Jurassic (Bathonian – Oxfordian) |
South America |
Argentina |
Dinosaur
tracks
|
|
Las Curtiembres Formation |
Late
Cretaceous (
Campanian) |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Lecho Formation |
Late Cretaceous (
Maastrichtian) |
South America |
Argentina |
Titanosaur
Saltasaurus,
avian and non-avian
theropods
|
|
Lemaire Formation |
Late Jurassic |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Leticia Formation |
Eocene (Bartonian) |
South America |
Argentina |
|
Cerro Lisandro, Neuquén province
[Note 2] |
Lisandro Formation (= Cerro Lisandro Fm.) |
Late Cretaceous (
Cenomanian –
Turonian) |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Lohan Cura Formation |
Early Cretaceous (
Aptian –
Albian) |
South America |
Argentina |
Mesosaurs; Oldest known
amniote
embryos
|
|
Mangrullo Formation |
Early
Permian (Artinskian)
[6] |
South America |
Uruguay |
[Note 1]
|
Mylodon Cave |
|
Pleistocene |
South America |
Chile |
|
|
Olmedo Formation |
Paleocene |
South America |
Argentina |
[
citation needed]
|
|
Quiriquina Formation |
Cretaceous |
South America |
Chile |
|
|
Paja Formation |
Cretaceous |
South America |
Colombia |
|
Licán Ray |
Panguipulli Formation |
Triassic |
South America |
Chile |
|
Punta Peters (5 km east of
Panguipulli) |
Panguipulli Formation |
Triassic |
South America |
Chile |
|
Patagonia Molasses |
|
Miocene |
South America |
Argentina |
|
Pilauco Bajo
[7]
|
|
Late Pleistocene |
South America |
Chile |
Megafauna, human activity
|
|
Pinturas Formation |
Miocene (Burdigalian – Langhian)[verification needed] |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Pisco Formation |
Late[verification needed] Miocene/Early Pliocene |
South America |
Peru |
|
|
Plottier Formation |
Late Cretaceous (Coniacian – ?Santonian) |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Portezuelo Formation |
Late Cretaceous (
Turonian –
Coniacian) |
South America |
Argentina |
Dinosaurs,
turtles, and other animals
|
|
Puerto Madryn Formation |
Late Miocene |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Punta Cactus Formation |
Eocene |
South America |
Argentina |
[
citation needed]
|
Auca Mahuevo |
Río Colorado Subgroup |
Cretaceous |
South America |
Argentina |
[Note 1]
|
|
Roca Formation |
Paleocene |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
San Julián Formation |
Eocene/
Oligocene |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Santa Cruz Formation |
Miocene |
South America |
Argentina |
|
|
Santana Group (
Crato Formation) |
Aptian-
Albian |
South America |
Brazil |
[Note 1]
|
Paleorrota |
Santa Maria Formation |
Middle–Late Triassic (Ladinian-Carnian) |
South America |
Brazil:
Rio Grande do Sul |
Early
dinosaurs
|
Cuesta Santo Domingo |
Santo Domingo Formation |
Miocene |
South America |
Chile |
|
Sâo José de Itaboraí basin |
Itaboraí Formation |
Paleocene (
Itaboraian) |
South America |
Brazil |
|
|
Sloggett Formation (= Bahía Sloggett Formation) |
Late
Eocene/Early
Oligocene |
South America |
Argentina |
[
citation needed]
|
|
Solimões Formation |
Late
Miocene/Early
Pliocene[verification needed] |
South America |
Brazil |
|
Toca da Boa Vista Cave |
|
Pleistocene |
South America |
Brazil |
|
|
Touro Passo Formation |
Late Pleistocene–
Holocene |
South America |
Brazil:
Rio Grande do Sul |
|
Tralcán |
Tralcán Formation |
Triassic |
South America |
Chile |
|
|
Tunal Formation |
Paleocene |
South America |
Argentina |
[
citation needed]
|
Urumaco |
Urumaco Formation |
Miocene |
South America |
Venezuela |
|
La Venta |
Honda Group |
Middle Miocene |
South America |
Colombia |
[Note 1]
|
|
Yacoraite Formation |
Late Cretaceous/Early
Paleocene (
Maastrichtian –
Danian) |
South America |
Argentina |
Dinosaur
tracks;
Stromatolites
|
|
Yahgan Formation |
Early
Cretaceous |
South America |
Argentina |
|
Pindaï Peninsula
|
Népoui Formation
|
Late
Miocene
|
Oceania
|
New Caledonia
|
Fossil flora
[8]
|