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This is a worldwide list of important and/or well-known localities where fossil

Fossil

Fossils are the preserved remains or trace fossil of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past. The totality of fossils, both discovered and undiscovered, and their placement in fossiliferous Rock formations and sedimentary rock layers is known as the fossil record....
s have been found. Such locations may either be a geological formation or a single site.

Geological formations consist of rock

Rock (geology)

In geology, rock is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock....
that was deposited throughout a specific period of time. They usually extend for large areas, and sometimes there are different important sites in which the same formation is exposed. In such cases, the sites should be listed under the appropriate formation.

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Africa (including Madagascar)

Site	Country/State	Age
Afar Depression Afar Depression The Afar Depression is a geological depression near the Horn of Africa, where it overlaps Eritrea, the Afar of Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia....	Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....	Pliocene Pliocene The Pliocene epoch is the period in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.332 million to 1.806 million years before present.The Pliocene is the second epoch of the Neogene period in the Cenozoic era....
Ahl al Oughlam Ahl al Oughlam Ahl al Oughlam is an important archaeological site and List of fossil sites just outside of Casablanca in Morocco....	Morocco Morocco Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....	Late Pliocene
Awash River Awash River The Awash is a major river of Ethiopia. Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia, and empties into a chain of interconnected lakes that begin with Lake Gargori and end with Lake Abbe on the border with Djibouti, some 100 kilometers from the head of the Gulf of Tadjoura....	Ethiopia	Pliocene
Bahariya Formation Bahariya Formation The Bahariya Formation is a central Egypt fossil bearing geologic formation dating back to the Cenomanian....	Egypt	Upper Cretaceous
Clarens Formation Clarens Formation The Clarens Formation is a prominent fossil site in the Tuli Basin, in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa....	South Africa	Lower Jurassic
Cradle of Humankind Cradle of Humankind The Cradle of Humankind is a World Heritage Site first named by UNESCO in 1999, about 50 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Gauteng province.... - Coopers Cave Coopers Cave South Africa Geographical LocationCooper's Cave is a series of fossil-bearing breccia filled cavities located almost exactly between the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about 40km Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa.... - Kromdraai Kromdraai fossil site Kromdraai is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cave located about 2km east of the well known South African hominid-bearing site of Sterkfontein and about 45km Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa.... - Motsetsi Motsetsi Geographical LocationMotsetsi Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cavity located about 14km East of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about 45km North-Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa.... - Plovers Lake Plovers Lake Geographical LocationPlovers Lake Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cavity located about 4km Southeast of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about 36km Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa.... - Sterkfontein Sterkfontein Sterkfontein is a set of limestone caves of special interest to paleontology-anthropologists located in Gauteng province, Northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa near the town of Krugersdorp.... - Swartkrans Swartkrans Swartkrans is a location in South Africa, around 20 miles from Johannesburg.Swartkrans is a farm near to Sterkfontein, notable for being extremely rich in archaeology, particularly Hominidae remains.... and others	South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....	Pliocene-Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
Elliot Formation Elliot Formation The Upper Elliot Formation is a geological formation dating to roughly between 200 to 190 million years ago and covering the Hettangian to Sinemurian stages....	South Africa	Triassic Triassic The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 251 to 199 annum . As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic.... -Jurassic Jurassic The Jurassic is a geologic period that extends from about annum to Ma, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous....
Erlhaz Formation Erlhaz Formation The is a geological Formation in Niger whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	Niger Niger Niger , officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east....	Lower Cretaceous
Fayum Formation	Egypt Egypt Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....	Eocene Eocene The Eocene Geologic time scale is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era....
Gladysvale Cave Gladysvale Cave South Africa Gladysvale Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cave located about 13km Northeast of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans and about 45km North-Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa....	South Africa	Pliocene-Pleistocene
Hadar Formation Hadar, Ethiopia Hadar is a village in Ethiopia, on the southern edge of the Afar Depression with a latitude and longitude of approximately . The village is known for the nearby archaeological site....	Ethiopia	Pliocene
Herto Bouri	Ethiopia	Pleistocene
Hoedjiespunt Hoedjiespunt *Hoedjiespunt* is a Middle Pleistocene aged hominid fossil-bearing site on the West coast of South Africa, near the town of Saldanha Bay. The site is an ancient Brown Hyena lair dug into the side of a sand dune, located on a peninsula overlooking the Atlantic Ocean....	South Africa	Pleistocene
Jebel Irhoud Jebel Irhoud Jebel Irhoud is an archaeology cave site located near Sidi Moktar, about 100 km west of Marrakesh, Morocco. Since circa 1991 7 significant hominid fossils have been discovered, and are currently dated to circa 160,000 years ago....	Morocco Morocco Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....	Pleistocene
Jebel Qatrani Formation,	Egypt	Oligocene Oligocene The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Geologic Timescale and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present....
Karoo Supergroup Karoo Supergroup The Karoo group is the largest stratigraphy unit in Southern Africa, covering almost two thirds of the present land surface, including central Cape Province, almost all of Orange Free State, western KwaZulu-Natal Province, much of south-east Transvaal, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi....	Southern Africa	Permian Permian The PermianThe term "Permian" was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil; Murchison asserted in 1841 that he named his "Permian system" after the ancient kingdom... -Lower Jurassic
Klasies River Caves Klasies River Caves Klasies River Caves are a series of caves located to the east of the Klasies River mouth on the Tsitsikamma coast in the Humansdorp district of Eastern Cape Province at the southernmost tip of South Africa....	South Africa	Pleistocene
Koobi Fora Koobi Fora Koobi Fora refers primarily to a region around Koobi Fora Ridge, located on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in the territory of the nomadic Gabbra tribe....	Kenya Kenya The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....	Pliocene-Pleistocene
Laetoli Laetoli Laetoli is a site in Tanzania, dated to the Plio-Pleistocene and famous for its hominid footprints, preserved in volcanic ash . The site of the Laetoli footprints is located 45 km south of Olduvai gorge....	Tanzania Tanzania Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....	Pliocene-Pleistocene
Lothagam	Kenya	Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain.... -Pliocene
Maevarano Formation Maevarano Formation The Maevarano Formation is an Upper Cretaceous sedimentary formation found in the Mahajanga Province of northwestern Madagascar. It is most likely Maastrichtian in age, and records a seasonal, semiarid environment with rivers that had greatly varying discharge ....	Madagascar Madagascar Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar , is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the List of islands by area, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are Endemism to Madagascar....	Upper Cretaceous Cretaceous The Cretaceous , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide, is a geologic period from circa to million years ago . In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows on the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period....
Olduvai Gorge Olduvai Gorge The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge is commonly referred to as "The Cradle of Mankind." It is a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley, which stretches along eastern Africa....	Tanzania	Pliocene
Omo Kibish Omo Kibish Omo Kibish is a rock formation and archaeological site on the Omo River in Ethiopia. It and its neighbouring sites have produced some of the earliest examples of fossilised human and australopithecine remains and stone tools....	Ethiopia	Pliocene-Pleistocene
Rusinga Island Rusinga Island Rusinga Island, with an elongated shape approx. 10 miles from end to end and 3 miles at its widest point, lies in the eastern part of Lake Victoria at the mouth of the Winam Gulf....	Kenya	Miocene
Taung Taung, North West Taung is a small town situated in the North West Province of South Africa. The name means place of the lion and was named after Tau, the chief of the Tswana speaking Legoya or BaTaung tribe....	South Africa	Pliocene
Tegana Formation Tegana Formation The is a geological Formation in Morocco whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	Morocco	Lower Cretaceous
Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	Upper Jurassic

Antarctica

Site	Age
Cross Valley Formation Seymour Island Seymour Island *Seymour Island* is an island in the chain of 16 major islands around the tip of the Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Graham Land is closer to South America than any other part of that continent.....	Upper Paleocene
La Meseta Formation Seymour Island Seymour Island *Seymour Island* is an island in the chain of 16 major islands around the tip of the Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Graham Land is closer to South America than any other part of that continent.....	Eocene Eocene The Eocene Geologic time scale is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era....
López de Bertodano Formation Lopez de Bertodano Formation The is a geological Formation in Antarctica whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.... Seymour Island Seymour Island *Seymour Island* is an island in the chain of 16 major islands around the tip of the Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Graham Land is closer to South America than any other part of that continent..... Vega Island Vega Island Vega Island is a small island to the northwest of James Ross Island, on the Antarctica Peninsula.It is one of several islands around the peninsula known as Graham Land, which is closer to South America than any other part of that continent....	Upper Cretaceous Cretaceous The Cretaceous , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide, is a geologic period from circa to million years ago . In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows on the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period.... – Lower Paleocene Paleocene The Paleocene or Palaeocene, "early dawn of the recent" is a geologic epoch that lasted from 65.5 ? 0.3 Mega-annum to 55.8 ? 0.2 Ma . It is the first epoch of the Palaeogene Period in the modern Cenozoic era .... (Maastrichtian Maastrichtian The Maastrichtian is the last faunal stage of the Cretaceous geologic period, and therefore of the Mesozoic geologic era. It spanned from 70.6 ? 0.6 annum to 65.5 ? 0.3 Ma .... – Danian Danian The Danian is the first faunal stage of the Paleocene epoch , making up the Early Paleocene sub-epoch. The beginning of the stage is defined by the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event 65.5 ? 0.3 annum .... )
Mount Kirkpatrick Formation Mount Kirkpatrick Formation File:Cryolophosaurus jconway.jpgThe Mount Kirkpatrick Formation is one of only two major dinosaur-bearing rock formations yet found on the continent of Antarctica; the other is the Santa Marta Formation from the Late Cretaceous....	Triassic Triassic The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 251 to 199 annum . As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic.... -Middle Jurassic Jurassic The Jurassic is a geologic period that extends from about annum to Ma, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous....
Santa Marta Formation Santa Marta Formation The Santa Marta Formation is a geologic formation in Antarctica. It, along with the Mount Kirkpatrick Formation and the Snow Hill Island Formation, are the only formations yet known on the continent where dinosaur fossils have been found....	Upper Cretaceous
Sobral Formation Seymour Island Seymour Island *Seymour Island* is an island in the chain of 16 major islands around the tip of the Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Graham Land is closer to South America than any other part of that continent.....	Lower Paleocene (Danian)

Asia

Site	Country/State	Age
Balabansai Formation	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large Eurasian country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the List of countries by area as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 km? ....	Upper Jurassic Jurassic The Jurassic is a geologic period that extends from about annum to Ma, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous....
Barun Goyot Formation Barun Goyot Formation The Barun Goyot Formation, dating from the Late Cretaceous Period , is located within and is widely represented in the Gobi Desert basin, in the ?mn?govi Province of Mongolia....	Mongolia Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....	Upper Cretaceous Cretaceous The Cretaceous , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide, is a geologic period from circa to million years ago . In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows on the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period....
Bayan Shireh Formation Bayan Shireh Formation The Bayan Shireh Formation is a geological formation in Burkhant, Mongolia, that stems from the Campanian stage of the late Cretaceous period, 83.5 million?70 million years ago....	Mongolia	Upper Cretaceous
Baynunah Formation	United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven states situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia....	Upper Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain....
Bissekty Formation	Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a Landlocked_country#Doubly_landlocked_country country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union....	Cretaceous
Bugti Hills Bugti Hills Bugti Hills are a range of hills in eastern Balochistan , Pakistan. It includes the tribal tract called Bugti country.30 million years ago the Haplorrhinies: Bugtipithecus inexpectans, Phileosimias kamali and Phileosimias brahuiorum, similar to today's lemurs, lived in rainforests on the Bugti Hills of central Pakistan....	Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...	Oligocene Oligocene The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Geologic Timescale and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present....
Chaomidianzi Formation	China China China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....	Lower Cretaceous
Chengjiang Maotianshan shales The Maotianshan Shales area a series of lower Cambrian deposits, famous for their Lagerst?tten. They take their name from Maotianshan Hill in Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, China....	China	Cambrian Cambrian The Cambrian is a geologic period that began about Mya at the end of the Proterozoic eon and ended about Ma with the beginning of the Ordovician period ....
Dabeigou Formation	China	Cretaceous
Daohugou Beds Daohugou Beds The Daohugou Beds are a series of fossil-bearing rock deposits located in northeastern China, south of Chifeng, around Daohugou village of Ningcheng county....	China	Jurassic or Cretaceous
Dashanpu Formation Dashanpu Formation The Dashanpu Formation is a Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic rock formation in China, most notable for the wealth of dinosaurs that have been excavated from the area....	China	Middle Jurassic
Dashuigou Formation Dashuigou Formation The is a geological Formation in Inner Mongolia, north People's Republic of China, whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous period.Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	China	Lower Cretaceous
Djadochta Formation Djadochta Formation The Djadochta Formation is situated in central Asia and dates from the Late Cretaceous Period . Laid down in the early Campanian, possibly starting in the latest Santonian, it is dated somewhat uncertainly at about 84-75 mya ....	Mongolia	Upper Cretaceous
Eijnhoro Formation	China	Lower Cretaceous
Es Skhul Es Skhul Es Skhul is a cave site situated c. 20 kilometers south of the Israeli town of Haifa, and c. 3 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea. The site, believed to be prehistoric, was first excavated by Dorothy Garrod in the summer of 1928....	Israel Israel Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area.... : Mount Carmel Mount Carmel Mount Carmel is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. Archaeologists have discovered ancient wine and oil presses at various locations on Mt....	Pliocene Pliocene The Pliocene epoch is the period in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.332 million to 1.806 million years before present.The Pliocene is the second epoch of the Neogene period in the Cenozoic era....
Flaming Cliffs Flaming Cliffs The Flaming Cliffs site, really Bayanzag , is a region of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, in which important fossil finds have been made. It was given this name by American Palaeontology Roy Chapman Andrews, who visited in the 1920s....	Mongolia	Cretaceous
Huadian Formation	China	Eocene Eocene The Eocene Geologic time scale is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era....
Indricotherium Formation	Kazakhstan	Oligocene
Irdin Manha Formation	Mongolia	Eocene
Iren Dabasu Formation	China	Upper Cretaceous
Jindong Formation	Korea Korea Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....	Cretaceous
Jiufotang Formation Jiufotang Formation The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms....	China	Lower Cretaceous
Khukhtek Formation	Mongolia	Lower Cretaceous
Kerman Kerman Kerman is a city in Iran. It is the center of Kerman province. Located in a large and flat plain, this city is located 1,076 km south of Tehran, capital of Iran....	Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....	Jurassic Jurassic The Jurassic is a geologic period that extends from about annum to Ma, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous....
Kitadani Quarry Kitadani Formation The is a geological Formation in Fukui, Japan whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	Japan Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....	Lower Cretaceous
Kota Formation Kota Formation The is a geological Formation in India. It dates back to the Hettangian-Pliensbachian....	India	Lower Jurassic
Minatogawa Man Minatogawa Man The Minatogawa Man is a prehistory people of Okinawa, Japan, represented by four skeletons dated between 18,000 and 16,000 years before present....	Japan	Neogene
Lake Nojiri Lake Nojiri is in the town of Shinano, Nagano, Kamiminochi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Second to Lake Suwa among lakes in Nagano Prefecture, Nojiri is a resort, the location of the first pumped-storage hydroelectricity in Japan, and the site of a paleolithic excavation....	Japan	Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
Lameta Formation Lameta Formation The Lameta Formation is a sedimentary geological formation found in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, India. It is of Maastrichtian age , and is notable for its dinosaur fossils....	India	Upper Cretaceous
Lang Trang Cave Cave A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some part that does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos.... s	Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....	Pleistocene
Liang Bua Cave Liang Bua Cave The Liang Bua Cave is on the Island of Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia was the site of the 2003 discovery of a potentially new species of Homo genus, Homo floresiensis, the remains of which are coded LB1, LB2, etc, after the cave.... , Flores Flores Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km? extending east from the Java island of Indonesia....	Indonesia Indonesia The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....	Pleistocene
Lufeng Formation	China	Jurassic
Maleri Formation Maleri Formation The Maleri Formation is a sedimentary geological formation found in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is of Norian age , and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs, including the basal saurischian Alwalkeria....	India	Upper Triassic
Minhe Formation Minhe Formation The is a geological Formation in northwestern People's Republic of China, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous period.Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	China	Cretaceous
Nemegt Formation Nemegt Formation The Nemegt Formation is a geological Deposition dating from the Late Cretaceous Sedimentary rock from the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. It overlies and sometimes forms folds with the Barun Goyot Formation....	Mongolia	Upper Cretaceous
Oi Formation	Japan	Miocene
Qafzeh Qafzeh Qafzeh or Kafzeh is a paleoanthropology site at Mount Kafzeh south of Nazareth, Israel. Since 1933, eleven significant fossilised Homo sapiens skeletons have been found at the main rock shelter and nearby Skhul cave....	Israel: Nazareth Nazareth Nazareth is the capital and largest Cities in Israel in the North District . It also serves as an unofficial Arab capital for Israel's Arab citizens of Israel who make up the vast majority of the population there....	Pliocene
Saketi Fossil Park	India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....	Pleistocene
Sao Khua Formation Sao Khua Formation The Sao Khua Formation is a geological Formation in Thailand whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	Thailand Thailand The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....	Lower Cretaceous
Shishugou Formation Shishugou Formation The Shishugou Formation is a geological Formation in Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic period....	China	Upper Jurassic
Tabun Tabun, Israel Tabun Cave located at Mount Carmel, Israel, was occupied intermittently during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic ages . In the course of this extremely long period of time, deposits of sand, silt and clay of up to 25 meters accumulated in the cave....	Israel	Pliocene
Tham Khuyen Cave Cave A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some part that does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos.... s	Vietnam	Jurassic
Tiaojishan Formation	-	-
Trinil Trinil Trinil is a paleoanthropology site on the banks of the Bengawan Solo River in Ngawi Regency, East Java Provinces of Indonesia, Indonesia. It was at this site in 1891 that the Netherlands anatomist Eug?ne Dubois discovered the first early Hominidae remains to be found outside of Europe: the famous "Java Man" specimen.... , Java Java Java is an island of Indonesia and the site of its Capital city, Jakarta. Once the centre of powerful Hindu kingdoms, The spread of Islam in Indonesia , and the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies, Java now plays a dominant role in the economic and political life of Indonesia....	Indonesia	Pleistocene
Tuchengzi Formation Tuchengzi Formation The is a geological Formation in China whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	China	Lower Cretaceous
Tugulu Group Tugulu Group The is a geological Formation in Xinjiang, China whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	China	Lower Cretaceous
Udurchukan Formation	Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....	Upper Cretaceous: Maastrichtian?
Ulansuhai Formation Ulansuhai Formation The is a geological Formation in Inner Mongolia, north China whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	China	Lower Cretaceous
Wucaiwan Formation Wucaiwan Formation The is a geological Formation in Asia. It dates back to the Middle Jurassic....	China	Middle Jurassic
Xiagou Formation Xiagou Formation The Xiagou Formation is the middle unit of the Xinminpu Group. It is named for its type site in Xiagou, in the Changma Basin of Gansu Province, northwestern China and is considered Early Cretaceous in age....	China	Cretaceous
Xinminbao Group Xinminbao Group The Xinminbao Group is a group of geological formations in north central China. They occur across a large depression between the Altai mountains of Mongolia to the north and the Qilian Shan of the Qinghai Plateau to the south, in the Gonpoquan and Suanjingze Basin s, and also in the neighbouring Jiuquan Basin....	China	Lower Cretaceous
Xiushan Formation	China: Guizhou Guizhou is a political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China located in the Southwest China of the country. Its provincial capital city is Guiyang....	Lower Silurian Silurian The Silurian is a geologic period that extends from the end of the Ordovician period, about 443.7 ? 1.5 annum , to the beginning of the Devonian period, about 416.0 ? 2.8 Mya .... : Llandovery Llandovery Llandovery is a market town in Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on the River Tywi and the A40 road.The town is served by Llandovery railway station, where there is a park and ride to Llanelli and Shrewsbury by the railway line....
Yixian Formation Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that stems from the early Cretaceous period. It is known for its fossils....	China	Lower Cretaceous
Yuliangze Formation Yuliangze Formation The is a geological Formation in Heilongjiang, China whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	China	Upper Cretaceous
Zhongming Formation	China	Devonian Devonian The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era spanning from . It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied....
Zhoukoudian Zhoukoudian Zhoukoudian or Choukoutien is a cave near Beijing in China. It has yielded many archaeology discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus, dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the gigantic hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris....	China	Pleistocene

Europe

Site	Country/State	Age
Aetokremnos Aetokremnos Aetokremnos is a rock shelter near Limassol on the southern coast of Cyprus. It is situated on a steep cliff site ca. 40m above the Mediterranean....	Cyprus Cyprus Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....	Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological Epoch which began approximately 11,700 years ago . According to traditional geological thinking, the Holocene continues to the present.... : Mesolithic Mesolithic The Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age was a period in the development of human technology in between the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age and the Neolithic or New Stone Age....
Ana ANA ANA as an abbreviation may refer to:* AB Nyk?pings Automobilfabrik* Administration for Native Americans, a program in the Administration for Children and Families...	Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....	Late Cretaceous Late Cretaceous Late Cretaceous refers to the second half of the Cretaceous Period , named after the famous white chalk cliffs of southern England, which date from this time....
Atapuerca Atapuerca The 'Atapuerca Mountains' is an ancient karst topography region of Spain, near the town of Atapuerca and Ibeas de Juarros, containing several caves, where fossils and stone tools of the earliest known Homininas in West Europe have been found....	Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....	Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
Batallones	Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....	Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain....
Bembridge Marls	England England native_name =\|conventional_long_name = England\|common_name = England\|image_flag = Flag of England.svg\|image_coat = England COA.svg\|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...	Oligocene Oligocene The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Geologic Timescale and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present....
Borgloon Formation	Belgium Belgium * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....	Oligocene
Buñol Buñol Bu?ol is a town and municipality in the province of Valencia, Spain. The municipality has an area of some 112 km?, and is situated approximately 38 km west of the provincial and autonomous community capital city, Valencia, Spain....	Spain	Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain....
Calizas de La Huérguina Formation	Spain	Cretaceous Cretaceous The Cretaceous , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide, is a geologic period from circa to million years ago . In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows on the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period.... : Barremian Barremian The Barremian faunal stage was a period of geological time between 130.0 ? 1.5 mya and 125.0 ? 1.0 mya). It is considered to be of the Early Cretaceous epoch , in which it constituted the earliest part of the obsolete Gallic epoch....
Chapelle-aux-Saints, La La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 is a partial skeleton of the species Homo neanderthalensis. It was discovered in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France by A....	France	Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
Crevillente	Spain	Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain....
Crô-Magnon Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil is a Communes of France in the Dordogne Departments of France in Aquitaine in southwestern France....	France France France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....	Pleistocene
Dmanisi Dmanisi Dmanisi is a townlet and archaeological site in Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation?s capital Tbilisi in the river valley of Mashavera....	Georgia Georgia (country) Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....	Pleistocene
Es Pouás	Ibiza Ibiza Ibiza is an island and town located in the Mediterranean Sea about 80 km off the coast of Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands autonomous community .... (Balearic Islands Balearic Islands The Balearic Islands are an archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.The four largest islands are Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, and Formentera.... )	Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and .... /Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological Epoch which began approximately 11,700 years ago . According to traditional geological thinking, the Holocene continues to the present....
Ferrassie, La	France	Pleistocene
Fur Formation Fur Formation The Fur Formation is a marine deposit approximately 60 meters thick consisting of diatoms and clay minerals . It is known for its abundant fossil fish, insects, reptiles, birds and plants....	Denmark	Lower Eocene
Grès à Reptiles Grès à Reptiles Gr?s ? Reptiles is a France fossil site in the Departments of France of Var preserving the remains of several types of dinosaurs and other extinct organisms....	France	Jurassic Jurassic The Jurassic is a geologic period that extends from about annum to Ma, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous....
Guimarota Guimarota Guimarota is a disused Coal mining that contains a diverse array of fossil animals and plants from the Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian period. It is located in central Portugal, near the town of Leiria....	Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....	Late Jurassic Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic Epoch of the Jurassic Period is the unit of geologic time scale from 161.2 ? 4.0 to 145.5 ? 4.0 million years ago, which is preserved in Upper Jurassic stratum....
Hampstead Formation	England	Oligocene
Hunsrück Slates Hunsrück Slates The Hunsr?ck Slate is a Devonian Lagerst?tte famous for exceptional preservation of a highly diverse fossil fauna assemblage. The various fossil localities are quarries located mostly south of the River Mosel and west of the Rhine in western Germany....	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.... : Bundenbach Bundenbach Bundenbach is a municipality in the Birkenfeld , in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany....	Devonian Devonian The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era spanning from . It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied....
Jurassic coast Jurassic Coast The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. The site stretches from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, Devon in East Devon to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage in East Dorset, a distance of ....	England	Jurassic
Kattendijk Sands	Belgium	Pliocene Pliocene The Pliocene epoch is the period in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.332 million to 1.806 million years before present.The Pliocene is the second epoch of the Neogene period in the Cenozoic era....
Las Hoyas	Spain	Cretaceous
Lo Hueco	Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....	Cretaceous Cretaceous The Cretaceous , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide, is a geologic period from circa to million years ago . In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows on the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period....
London Clay London Clay The London Clay is a Sediment#Shores_and_shallow_seas formation of Ypresian age which outcrop in the southeast of England. The London Clay is well known for the fossils it contains....	England	Eocene Eocene The Eocene Geologic time scale is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era....
Lourinhã Formation Lourinhã Formation Lourinh? Formation is a geological formation located in West Portugal, named for the municipality of Lourinh?, from which a wide array of fossils come....	Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....	Late Jurassic Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic Epoch of the Jurassic Period is the unit of geologic time scale from 161.2 ? 4.0 to 145.5 ? 4.0 million years ago, which is preserved in Upper Jurassic stratum....
Lyme Regis Lyme Regis Lyme Regis is a coastal town in West Dorset, England, situated 25 miles west of Dorchester, Dorset and east of Exeter. The town lies in Lyme Bay, on the English Channel coast at the Dorset-Devon border....	England: Dorset Dorset Dorset , is a Counties of England in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester, Dorset, situated in the south of the county at ....	Jurassic
Maastricht Formation Maastricht Formation The , named after the city of Maastricht, the Netherlands, is a geological Formation in the Netherlands and Belgium whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous....	Benelux Benelux The Benelux is an union in Western Europe that comprises three neighboring countries, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg , which lie in the north western European region between France and Germany....	Cretaceous
Maltravieso Cave	Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....	Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
Mauer Mauer (Baden) Mauer is a village in south western Germany. It is located between Heidelberg and Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district in the state of Baden-W?rttemberg....	Germany	Pleistocene
Messel Pit Messel pit The Messel Pit is a disused quarry near the village of Messel, about 35 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Bituminous shale was mined there....	Germany	Eocene
Monte Bolca Bolca Bolca is a village in the Veneto, on the southern margin of the Italy Alps. It is a frazione of the comune of Vestenanova, in the province of Verona....	Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....	Eocene
Murero Murero Murero is a municipality in Zaragoza ....	Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....	Cambrian Cambrian The Cambrian is a geologic period that began about Mya at the end of the Proterozoic eon and ended about Ma with the beginning of the Ordovician period ....
Neandertal - Feldhofer grotto	Germany	Pleistocene
Oxford Clay Oxford Clay Oxford Clay is a Jurassic marine sedimentary rock underlying much of South East England, from as far west as Dorset and as far north as Yorkshire....	England	Jurassic
Paris Basin Paris Basin (geology) The Paris Basin is one of the major geological regions of France having developed since the Triassic on a basement formed by the Variscan orogeny.... - Argile Plastique	France	Eocene - Lower Eocene
Pobiti Kamani Pobiti Kamani Pobiti Kamani is a rock formation located in Varna Province, Bulgaria, on the road between Varna and Sofia around several villages just west of Varna....	Bulgaria Bulgaria The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....	Mesozoic Mesozoic The Mesozoic Era is one of three Geologic time scale of the Phanerozoic eon . The division of time into eras dates back to Giovanni Arduino, in the 18th century, although his original name for the era now called the 'Mesozoic' was 'Secondary' ....
Pontnewydd Cave (Neanderthal Neanderthal The Neanderthal , or Neandertal, is an extinct member of the Homo genus that is known from Pleistocene specimens found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia.... )	Wales Wales native_name = Cymru\|conventional_long_name = Wales\|common_name = Wales\|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg\|national_motto = ...	Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
Quercy Phosphorites	France France France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....	Eocene/Oligocene
Riodeva Riodeva Riodeva is a municipality located in the Teruel , Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 191 inhabitants....	Spain	Tithonian/Berriasian
Roma, La	Spain	Miocene
Sajóvölgyi Formation	Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....	Miocene: Late Badenian
Sânpetru Formation	Romania Romania Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....	Cretaceous: Maastrichtian Maastrichtian The Maastrichtian is the last faunal stage of the Cretaceous geologic period, and therefore of the Mesozoic geologic era. It spanned from 70.6 ? 0.6 annum to 65.5 ? 0.3 Ma ....
Santa Ana Cave	Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....	Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
Sieblos Dysodil	Germany	Oligocene
Solnhofen limestone Solnhofen limestone The Solnhofen limestone is a Jurassic lagerst?tte that preserves a rare assemblage of fossilized organisms, some of which, such as sea jellies, don't ordinarily fossilize at all....	Germany	Jurassic
Turritellenplatte Turritellenplatte The Turritellenplatte of Ermingen is a type of very rich fossil-bearing rock which is of particular interest to geologists and paleontologists....	Germany: Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg Baden-W?rttemberg is one of the 16 States of Germany of the Federal Republic of Germany. Baden-W?rttemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine?but one which has some of its major cities straddling the banks of the Neckar River ....	Miocene: mid-Burdigalian Burdigalian Burdigalian is a age of the early Miocene epoch . It spans the time between 20.43 ? 0.05 annum and 15.97 ? 0.05 Ma . It is named after Burdigala, the original name for Bordeaux, France....
Valkenburg Formation	Belgium	Cretaceous
Venta del Moro Venta del Moro Venta del Moro is a Municipalities of Spain in the Comarques of the Valencian Community of Requena-Utiel in the Valencia , Spain....	Spain	Miocene
Venta Micena	Spain	Pliocene
Wessex Formation Wessex Formation The Wessex Formation is an English fossil site and geological Formation that dates back to the Barremian Stage of the Early Cretaceous. It is part of the Wealden Group and underlies the younger Vectis Formation....	England	Cretaceous

North America (including Mexico)

Site	Country/State	Age
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument Agate Fossil Beds National Monument Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. National Monument near Harrison, Nebraska. The main feature of the Monument is a valley of the Niobrara River....	USA: Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska is a U.S. state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and Western United States.Nebraska probably gets its name from the archaic Chiwere language words ?? Br?sge or the Omaha-Ponca language N? Bth?ska meaning "flat water," after the Platte River that flows through the state....	Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain....
Aquia Formation Aquia Formation The Aquia Formation is a paleocene fossil site located near the Potomac River in Maryland and Virginia....	USA: Maryland Maryland Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east.... and Virginia Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....	Paleocene Paleocene The Paleocene or Palaeocene, "early dawn of the recent" is a geologic epoch that lasted from 65.5 ? 0.3 Mega-annum to 55.8 ? 0.2 Ma . It is the first epoch of the Palaeogene Period in the modern Cenozoic era ....
Ash Hollow Formation - Ashfall Fossil Beds Ashfall Fossil Beds The Ashfall Fossil Beds of Antelope County, Nebraska in northeastern Nebraska are among the rare preservation sites called lagerst?tten, which preserve ecological "snapshots" from a brief moment in time, due to extraordinary local conditions that have preserved a range of fossilized organisms undisturbed....	USA: Nebraska	Miocene - Clarendonian Clarendonian The Clarendonian North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology , typically set from 13,600,000 to 10,300,000 years Before Present....
Aucilla River Aucilla River The Aucilla River rises close to Thomasville, Georgia, Georgia , USA, and passes through the Big Bend region of Florida, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico at Apalachee Bay....	USA: Florida Florida Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....	Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and .... /Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological Epoch which began approximately 11,700 years ago . According to traditional geological thinking, the Holocene continues to the present....
Austin Chalk	USA: Texas Texas Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....	Late Cretaceous Cretaceous The Cretaceous , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide, is a geologic period from circa to million years ago . In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows on the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period....
Bainbridge Formation	USA: Missouri	Silurian
Bakken Formation Bakken Formation The Bakken Formation, initially described by geologist J.W. Nordquist in 1953,is a rock unit from the Late Devonian to Early Mississippian age occupying about of the subsurface of the Williston Basin, covering parts of Montana, North Dakota, and Saskatchewan....	USA/Canada: Montana Montana Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains.... , North Dakota North Dakota North Dakota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States and Western United States regions of the United States of America. North Dakota is the 19th largest state by area in the US; it is the 48th most populous, with just over 640,000 residents as of 2006.... and Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 588,276.09 square kilometres and a population of 1,015,895 , mostly living in the southern half of the province....	Upper Devonian Devonian The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era spanning from . It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied.... - Lower Carboniferous Carboniferous The Carboniferous is a geologic period that extends from the end of the Devonian period, about 359.2 ? 2.5 annum , to the beginning of the Permian period, about 299.0 ? 0.8 Ma ... (Early Mississippian)
Bighill Creek Formation	Canada	Upper Pleistocene
Big Sandy Formation	USA: Arizona Arizona The State of Arizona is a U.S. state located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix, Arizona....	Miocene
Blanco Formation	USA: Kansas Kansas The State of Kansas is a Midwestern U.S. state in the Central United States of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the United States "Heartland".... , Texas	Pliocene/Pleistocene
Bone Cabin Quarry Bone Cabin Quarry Bone Cabin Quarry lies approximately fifteen miles north of Laramie, Wyoming near historic Como Bluff. During the summer of 1897 Walter W. Granger, a paleontologist from the American Museum of Natural History, came upon a hillside littered with Jurassic period dinosaur bone fragments....	USA: Wyoming Wyoming The State of Wyoming is a sparsely populated U.S. state in the Northwestern United States of the United States. The majority of the state is dominated by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the easternmost section of the state is a high altitude prairie region known as the High Plains ....	Jurassic Jurassic The Jurassic is a geologic period that extends from about annum to Ma, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous....
Bone Valley Formation	USA: Florida	Pliocene
Bridger Formation	USA: Wyoming	Eocene Eocene The Eocene Geologic time scale is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era....
Brule Formation	USA : South Dakota South Dakota South Dakota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America. It is named after the Lakota people and Sioux Sioux Native Americans in the United States tribes....	Oligocene Oligocene The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Geologic Timescale and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present....
Burgess Shale Burgess Shale The Burgess Shale Formation is one of the world's most celebrated fossil localities, and is famous for the exceptional preservation of the fossils found within it, in which the soft parts are preserved....	Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean.... : British Columbia British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....	Cambrian Cambrian The Cambrian is a geologic period that began about Mya at the end of the Proterozoic eon and ended about Ma with the beginning of the Ordovician period .... : Albertan
Calvert Formation	USA: Maryland Maryland Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....	Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain....
Cañón del Tule Formation	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....	Cretaceous: Maastrichtian Maastrichtian The Maastrichtian is the last faunal stage of the Cretaceous geologic period, and therefore of the Mesozoic geologic era. It spanned from 70.6 ? 0.6 annum to 65.5 ? 0.3 Ma ....
Cedar Mountain Formation Cedar Mountain Formation The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to distinctive sedimentary rocks in eastern Utah that occur between the underlying Morrison Formation and overlying Naturita Formation ....	USA: Colorado Colorado The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States.... and Utah Utah The State of Utah is a western United States U.S. state of the United States. It was the List of U.S. states by date of statehood admitted to the United States on January 4, 1896....	Cretaceous
Cerro del Pueblo Formation Cerro del Pueblo Formation The is a geological Formation in Coahuila, Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	Mexico	Cretaceous: Campanian
Cerro Grande Formation	Mexico	Cretaceous: Maastrichtian
Cerro Huerta Formation	Mexico	Cretaceous: Campanian-Maastrichtian
Chuckanut Formation Chuckanut Formation The Chuckanut Formation is a geology layer found in western Washington, USA, and is the layer composing part of the Chuckanut Mountains. It is overlain by the top layer, Huntingdon Formation....	USA: Washington Washington Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....	Eocene
Clarita Formation	USA: Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....	Silurian
Clarno Formation	USA: Oregon Oregon Oregon is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers and settlers....	Eocene
Como Bluff Como Bluff Como Bluff is a long ridge extending east-west, located between the towns of Rock River, Wyoming and Medicine Bow, Wyoming, Wyoming. The ridge is an anticline, formed as a result of compressional geological folding....	USA: Wyoming	Mesozoic Mesozoic The Mesozoic Era is one of three Geologic time scale of the Phanerozoic eon . The division of time into eras dates back to Giovanni Arduino, in the 18th century, although his original name for the era now called the 'Mesozoic' was 'Secondary' ....
Coon Creek Formation Coon Creek Formation The Coon Creek Formation is a geologic formation located in western Tennessee and extreme northeast Mississippi. It is a sedimentary sandy marl deposit, Late Cretaceous in age, about 73 million years old....	USA: Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States.... and Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....	Cretaceous: Maastrichtian
Decorah Shale Decorah Shale The Decorah Shale is a fossiliferous shale that lies above the Platteville Limestone and below the Galena Limestone in the sedimentary sequence that formed from the shallow sea that covered central North America during Ordovician Time....	Upper Midwest Upper Midwest The Upper Midwest is a region of the United States with no universally agreed-upon boundary, but it almost always lies within the United States Census Bureau's definition of the Midwestern United States#Definition and includes the U.S.... ern USA, esp. Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....	Ordovician
Delorme Formation	Canada: Yukon	Silurian-Devonian
Demopolis Chalk Formation Demopolis Chalk Formation The Demopolis Chalk Formation is a geological Formation in North America, within the United States states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee....	USA: Alabama Alabama Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.... , Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi .... , Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....	Cretaceous
Dinosaur Park Formation Dinosaur Park Formation The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Judith River Group, a major geologic unit in southern Alberta. It was laid down over a period of time between about 76.5 and 75 million years ago....	Canada: Alberta Alberta Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....	Cretaceous: Campanian Campanian The Campanian is a faunal stage on the geologic time scale occurring from 83.5 ? 0.7 annum to 70.6 ? 0.6 Ma .It is the middle stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch ....
Dinosaur State Park Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum The Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum is a unique state park located 20 minutes south of Hartford at 400 West Street, Rocky Hill, Connecticut, USA....	USA: Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....	Jurassic
Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada....	Canada: British Columbia	Eocene
Drumheller, Badlands	Canada: Alberta Alberta Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....	Mesozoic
Dumugol Formation	USA:
Edson Beds	USA: Kansas	Pliocene Pliocene The Pliocene epoch is the period in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.332 million to 1.806 million years before present.The Pliocene is the second epoch of the Neogene period in the Cenozoic era.... : Blancan Blancan The Blancan North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology , typically set from 4,750,000 to 1,808,000 years Before Present....
Eutaw Formation Eutaw Formation The Eutaw Formation is a geological Formation in North America, within the United States states of Alabama, Georgia , and Mississippi. The strata date from the late Coniacian to the early Santonian Stage of the Late Cretaceous....	USA: Alabama Alabama Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.... , Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution.... , Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....	Cretaceous
Falls of the Ohio Falls of the Ohio State Park Falls of the Ohio State Park is a state park in Indiana. It is located on the banks of the Ohio River at Clarksville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky....	USA: Indiana Indiana The State of Indiana was the 19th U.S. state admitted into the union. It is located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America....	Devonian
Florissant Fossil Beds Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is a national monument noted for its fossils in Teller County, Colorado, United States. It is located in a mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak and holds spectacular remnants of prehistoric life....	USA: Colorado	Eocene: Priabonian Priabonian The Priabonian is the final faunal stage of the Eocene epoch . It spans the time between 37.2 ? 0.1 annum and 33.9 ? 0.1 Ma ....
Fossil Prairie Park	USA: Iowa	Devonian
Ghost Ranch Ghost Ranch The Ghost Ranch is a retreat and education center run by the Presbyterian Church , located close to the village of Abiquiu in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico....	USA: New Mexico New Mexico New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....	Triassic Triassic The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 251 to 199 annum . As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic....
Glenns Ferry Formation - Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument near Hagerman, Idaho, contains the largest concentration of Hagerman Horse fossils in North America. The 4,351-acre Monument is internationally significant because it protects the world's richest known fossil deposits from a time period called the late Pliocene epoch, 3.5 million years ago....	USA: Idaho Idaho The State of Idaho is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city and Capital is Boise, Idaho....	Pliocene/Pleistocene
Glen Rose Formation Glen Rose Formation The Glen Rose Formation, located in the Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas, is a fossil bearing stratum dating from the Aptian-Albian boundary of the early-Cretaceous....	USA: Texas	Cretaceous: Aptian Aptian Aptian stage is a faunal stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch in the geologic timescale, that extends from 125.0 ? 1.0 annum to 112.0 ? 1.0 Ma , approximately.... -Albian Albian Albian is a faunal stage of the Cretaceous geologic timescale.Albian is a term proposed in 1842 by A. d'Orbigny for that stage of the Cretaceous system which comes above the Aptian and below the Cenomanian ....
Gower Formation	USA: Iowa	Silurian
Gray Fossil Site Gray Fossil Site The Gray Fossil Site is a Late Miocene assemblage of fossils located near the unincorporated town of Gray, Tennessee in Washington County, Tennessee, Northeast Tennessee, and dates back 4.5 to 7 million years Before the Common Era)....	USA: Tennessee	Miocene
Green River Formation Green River Formation The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a series of intermountain lakes. The sedimentary layers were formed in a large area of interconnecting lakes, named for the present-day Green River , a tributary of the Colorado River....	USA: Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming	Eocene
Gunflint Chert Gunflint Chert The Gunflint chert is a sequence of banded iron formation rocks that are exposed in the Gunflint Range of northern Minnesota and western Ontario along the north shore of Lake Superior.... in Gunflint Range Gunflint Range The Gunflint Range is an Iron_ore deposit in northern Minnesota in the United States and western Ontario, Canada. The range extends from the extreme northern portion of Cook County, Minnesota into Canada....	Canada: western Ontario Ontario Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area.... & USA: Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....	Upper Archaean - Lower Proterozoic Proterozoic The Proterozoic is a eon representing a period before the first abundant complex life on Earth. The Proterozoic Eon extended from 2500 annum to 542.0 ? 1.0 Ma , and is the most recent part of the old, informally named ?Precambrian? time....
Hawthorne Formation	USA: South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina is a U.S. state in the Southern United States of the United States. It borders Georgia to the south and North Carolina to the north....	Miocene
Hell Creek Formation Hell Creek Formation The Hell Creek Formation is an intensely-studied division of Upper Cretaceous to lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana....	USA: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming	Cretaceous: Maastrichtian
Hornerstown Formation	USA: New Jersey New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....	Cretaceous/Paleocene
Huerfano Formation	USA: Colorado	Eocene
Joggins Joggins, Nova Scotia Joggins is a Canada rural community located in western Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia....	Canada: Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Nova Scotia is a Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada....	Carboniferous
John Day Formation	USA: Oregon	Oligocene/Miocene
Judith River Formation Judith River Formation The Judith River Formation is a fossil-bearing geologic formation in Montana, and is part of the Judith River Group. It dates to the upper Cretaceous....	USA: Montana	Cretaceous: Campanian
Kanawha Formation	USA: West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia is a U.S. state in the Appalachian, Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia on the southeast, Kentucky on the southwest, Ohio on the northwest, and Pennsylvania and Maryland on the northeast....	Pennsylvanian
Kayenta Formation Kayenta Formation The Kayenta Formation is a geologic formation in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the Colorado Plateau province of the United States, including northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, Nevada, and Utah....	USA: Arizona Arizona The State of Arizona is a U.S. state located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix, Arizona.... , Colorado, Nevada Nevada Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada.... , and Utah	Jurassic
Keefer Formation	USA
Klondike Mountain Formation	USA: Washington	Eocene: Ypresian Ypresian The Ypresian is the first faunal stage of the Eocene epoch and usually corresponds to the Early Eocene subepoch, though sometimes the Lutetian is included therein....
Krukowski Quarry	USA:Wisconsin	Cambrian Cambrian The Cambrian is a geologic period that began about Mya at the end of the Proterozoic eon and ended about Ma with the beginning of the Ordovician period ....
La Brea Tar Pits La Brea Tar Pits The La Brea Tar Pits are a famous cluster of tar pits located in Hancock Park in the urban heart of Los Angeles, California, United States. Asphalt or tar has seeped up from the ground in this area for tens of thousands of years....	USA: California California California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....	Pleistocene: Rancholabrean Rancholabrean The Rancholabrean North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology , typically set from 300,000 to 11,000 years Before Present....
Lance Creek Formation	USA: North Dakota and Wyoming	Cretaceous: Maastrichtian
Las Encinas Formation	Mexico	Cretaceous: Maastrichtian
Las Imágenes Formation	Mexico	Cretaceous: Maastrichtian
Lennep Formation	USA: Montana	Cretaceous
Linton Formation	USA: Ohio	Pennsylvanian
Lockatong Formation	USA: New Jersey	Triassic
Mascall Formation	USA: Oregon	Miocene
Mattoon Formation	USA:
Mazon Creek	USA: Illinois Illinois The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....	Carboniferous: Pennsylvanian Pennsylvanian The Pennsylvanian is an epoch in the geologic timescale or a series in the stratigraphic column. It is a subdivision of the Carboniferous period lasting from roughly to Ma ....
McAbee Fossil Beds	Canada: British Columbia	Eocene
McKenzie Formation McKenzie Formation The Silurian McKenzie Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Maryland....	USA: West Virginia	Silurian
Melbourne Bone Bed Melbourne Bone Bed Melbourne Bone Bed is a paleontology site located at Crane Creek in Melbourne, Florida, Florida. This site contains fossils from 20,000 to 10,000 years before present in the Pleistocene period....	USA: Florida	Pleistocene
Medina Formation		Silurian
Miguasha National Park Miguasha National Park Miguasha National Park is a protected area near Carleton-sur-Mer, Quebec on the Gasp? Peninsula of Qu?bec. Created in 1985 by the Government of Qu?bec, Miguasha was designated a World Heritage Site in 1999 in recognition of its wealth of fossils, which display a crucial time during the Evolution on Earth....	Canada: Québec Quebec Quebec , in French language, *Qu?bec* , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....	Devonian: Famennian
Mooreville Chalk Formation Mooreville Chalk Formation The Mooreville Chalk Formation is a geological Formation in North America, within the United States states of Alabama and Mississippi. The strata date back to the early Santonian to the early Campanian Stage of the Late Cretaceous....	USA: Alabama Alabama Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.... and Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....	Cretaceous
Monterey Formation Monterey Formation The Monterey Formation is an extensive Miocene oil-rich geology sedimentary formation in California, with massive outcroppings of the formation in areas of the California Coast Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and on some of California's off-shore islands....	USA: California	Miocene
Morrison Formation Morrison Formation The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic sedimentary rock that is found in the western United States, which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America....	Canada/USA: Great Plains Great Plains The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe which lie west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada....	Upper Jurassic
Naco Formation	USA:
Nanjemoy Formation	USA: Virginia	Eocene
Navesink Formation	USA: New Jersey	Cretaceous
Niobrara Formation	USA: Kansas	Cretaceous
Ogalalla Formation	USA: Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico	Miocene/Pliocene
Oldman Formation Oldman Formation The Oldman Formation is the middle member of the Judith River Group, a major geologic unit in southern Alberta. The formation is widely recognized as bearing a great number of well preserved dinosaur skeletons, as well as other fossils....	Canada: Alberta	Cretaceous: Campanian Campanian The Campanian is a faunal stage on the geologic time scale occurring from 83.5 ? 0.7 annum to 70.6 ? 0.6 Ma .It is the middle stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch ....
Page-Ladson prehistory site Page-Ladson prehistory site The Page-Ladson prehistory site is a deep hole in the bed of the Aucilla River that has stratum deposits of late Pleistocene and early Holocene animal bones and human artifacts reaching back to about 14,500 to 12,500 years before the present....	USA: Florida	Pleistocene/Holocene
Pikeville Formation	USA:
Pipe Creek Sinkhole Pipe Creek Sinkhole Pipe Creek Sinkhole near Swayzee, Indiana in Grant County, Indiana, is one of the most important paleontology sites in the interior of the eastern half of North America....	USA: Indiana Indiana The State of Indiana was the 19th U.S. state admitted into the union. It is located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America....	Pliocene
Pocahontas Formation	USA: West Virginia
Pocono Formation Pocono Formation The Mississippian Pocono Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia It is also known as the Pocono Group in Maryland and West Virginia),...	USA: Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia	Mississippian
Price West Formation	USA: West Virginia
Puget Group	USA: Washington	Upper Eocene
Quarry Mountain Formation	USA: Oklahoma	Silurian
Rancho Nuevo Formation	Mexico	Cretaceous-Paleocene: Maastrichtian-Danian Danian The Danian is the first faunal stage of the Paleocene epoch , making up the Early Paleocene sub-epoch. The beginning of the stage is defined by the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event 65.5 ? 0.3 annum ....
Rattlesnake Formation	USA: Oregon	Miocene: Tortonian Tortonian Tortonian is a age of the late Miocene epoch that spans the time between 11.608 ? 0.005 annum and 7.246 ? 0.005 Ma .... -Messinian Messinian Messinian is the last age of the Miocene epoch . It spans the time between 7.246 ? 0.005 annum and 5.332 ? 0.005 Ma . It is named after the Messinian evaporite deposit, which was named after Messina in Sicily....
Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite is an assemblage of fossil dinosaur footprints discovered in 1997 on public land near Shell, Wyoming by , a research geologist from the Indiana Geological Survey....	USA: Wyoming	Middle Jurassic
Rexroad Formation	USA: Kansas	Pliocene
Rincón Colorado	Mexico: Coahuila	Cretaceous
Ripley Formation Ripley Formation The Ripley Formation is a geological Formation in North America, within the United States states of Alabama, Georgia , Mississippi, and Tennessee....	USA: Alabama Alabama Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.... , Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution.... , Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi .... , Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....	Cretaceous
Rosebud Formation	USA: South Dakota	Miocene
Rose Hill Formation	USA:
Sheep Creek Formation	USA: Nebraska	Miocene: Upper Hemingfordian?
Smoky Hill Chalk Smoky Hill Chalk The Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Chalk Formation is a Cretaceous conservation Lagerst?tte, or fossil rich geological formation, known primarily for its exceptionally well-preserved marine reptiles....	USA: Nebraska	Cretaceous
St. Clair Limestone	USA: Arkansas	Silurian
Syracuse Formation	USA: New York	Silurian
Temblor Formation	USA: California	Miocene
Texas Red Beds	USA: Texas	Permian Permian The PermianThe term "Permian" was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil; Murchison asserted in 1841 that he named his "Permian system" after the ancient kingdom...
Thomas Farm	USA: Florida	Miocene
Traverse Group (Petoskey)	USA: Michigan Michigan Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....	Devonian
Tuscacora Formation	USA:	Silurian
Two Medicine Formation Two Medicine Formation The Two Medicine Formation is a geologic formation, or rock body, that was deposited between 83.5 ? 0.7 Ma to 70.6 ? 0.6 Ma , during Campanian time, and is located in northwestern Montana....	USA: Montana	Cretaceous: Campanian
Wannagan Creek Fossil Site Wannagan Creek site The Wannagan Creek site is a fossil site found in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park of North Dakota, United States. The site is Paleocene in age, approximately 60 mya ....	USA: North Dakota	Paleocene
Washakie Formation	USA: Wyoming	Eocene
Wheeler Shale Wheeler Shale The Wheeler Shale is a Cambrian fossil locality world famousfor prolific agnostid and Elrathia kingii trilobite remains and represents a Lagerst?tte....	USA: Utah	Cambrian
White River Formation	USA: Colorado	Upper Eocene to mid-Oligocene
Willwood Formation	USA: Wyoming	Paleocene/Eocene
Woodbine Formation Woodbine Formation The is a geological Formation in east Texas whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	USA: Texas	Cenomanian
Zion National Park Zion National Park Zion National Park is a national park located in the Southwestern United States, near Springdale, Utah. A prominent feature of the 229-square mile park is Zion Canyon, 15 miles long and up to half a mile deep, cut through the reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone by the North Fork of the Virgin River....	USA: Utah	Triassic and Jurassic
Zuni Basin	USA: New Mexico	Cretaceous

Oceania

Site	State/Territory/region	Age
Alcoota Alcoota The Alcoota Fossil Beds are an important paleontological site located on Alcoota Station in Central Australia, 200km north-east of Alice Springs....	Northern Territory Northern Territory The Northern Territory is a federal states and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions.... (Australia)	Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain....
Apex chert, Pilbara Craton Pilbara craton The Pilbara craton , along with the Kaapvaal craton are the only remaining areas of pristine Archaean 3.6-2.7 Gigaannum crust on Earth. Similarities of their rock records, especially the similarities in the overlying Late Archean sequences of both these cratons, suggest that they were once part of the Vaalbara supercontinent, and then believ...	Western Australia Western Australia Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state.... : Marble Bar	Archaean eon
Bathans Formation	Otago Otago Otago is a regions of New Zealand in the south of the South Island. It has an area of approximately making it the country's second largest region.... (New Zealand)	Miocene
Bluff Downs	Queensland Queensland Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south.... (Australia)	Pliocene Pliocene The Pliocene epoch is the period in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.332 million to 1.806 million years before present.The Pliocene is the second epoch of the Neogene period in the Cenozoic era....
Bullock Creek Bullock Creek The Bullock Creek Fossil site is one of three known vertebrate fossil sites in the Australia's Northern Territory, along with the Alcoota Fossil Beds on Alcoota Station and the Kangaroo Well site on Deep Well Station....	Northern Territory (Australia)	Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain....
Cape Range Cape Range The Cape Range is a small subrange of the Kitimat Ranges, located on the southern end of Calvert Island, British Columbia, Canada....	Western Australia Western Australia Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....	Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain....
Cuddie Springs Cuddie Springs Cuddie Springs is a notable archaeology and paleontology site in the semi-arid zone of central northern New South Wales, Australia . Cuddie Springs is an open site, with the fossil deposits preserved in a claypan on the floor of an ancient ephemeral lake....	New South Wales (Australia)	Pleistocene
Curio Bay Curio Bay Located near the Slope Point of New Zealand's South Island, Curio Bay is best known as the site of a petrified wood some 180 million years old....	Southland (New Zealand)	Jurassic Jurassic The Jurassic is a geologic period that extends from about annum to Ma, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous....
Dinosaur Cove Dinosaur Cove Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia is a major fossil bearing site in south-east of the continent where the Otway Ranges meet the sea to the west of Cape Otway, adjacent to Great Otway National Park ....	Victoria (Australia)	Cretaceous Cretaceous The Cretaceous , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide, is a geologic period from circa to million years ago . In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows on the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period....
Dinosaur Dreaming Dinosaur Dreaming Dinosaur Dreaming is a palaeontology site situated near Inverloch, Victoria, Victoria , Australia. Remains of primitive mammals from the Cretaceous Age were first uncovered there in 1997 by researchers from the Monash University Science Centre....	Victoria (Australia)	Cretaceous
Ediacara Hills Ediacara Hills Ediacara Hills are a range of low hills in the northern part of the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, around 650 km north of Adelaide. The area has many old copper and silver mining from mining activity in the late 19th century....	South Australia South Australia South Australia is a States and territories of Australia of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.... : Flinders Ranges Flinders Ranges Flinders Ranges is the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts approximately 200 km north west of Adelaide, Australia. The discontinuous ranges stretch for over 430 km from Port Pirie to Lake Callabonna....	Ediacaran Ediacaran The Ediacaran Period is the last geological period of the Neoproterozoic Era and of the Proterozoic Eon, immediately preceding the Cambrian Period, the first period of the Paleozoic Era and of the Phanerozoic Eon....
Emu Bay shale Emu Bay shale The Emu Bay Shale is a Formation in Emu Bay, South Australia, containing a major Konservat-Lagerst?tten . It is one of two in the world containing Redlichiidan trilobites....	South Australia: Kangaroo Island Kangaroo Island Kangaroo Island is Australia's third largest island - after Tasmania and Melville Island, Northern Territory. It is 112 kilometres southwest of Adelaide at the entrance of Gulf Saint Vincent....	Lower Cambrian
Etadunna Formation	South Astralia	Oligocene Oligocene The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Geologic Timescale and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present.... /Miocene
Georgina Basin Georgina Basin The Georgina Basin is a large craton sedimentary basin in central and northern Australia, lying mostly within the Northern Territory and partly within Queensland....	Queensland, Northern Territory (Australia)	Neoproterozoic Neoproterozoic The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time scale from 1,000 to 542 +/- 0.3 million years ago. The terminal Era of the formal Proterozoic Eon , it is further subdivided into the Tonian, Cryogenian, and Ediacaran Periods.... to the late Paleozoic Paleozoic The Paleozoic or Palaeozoic Era is the earliest of three geology Era of the Phanerozoic Eon . The Paleozoic spanned from roughly , and is subdivided into six period ; from oldest to youngest they are: the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian period, Carboniferous, and Permian...
Gogo Formation Gogo Formation The Gogo Formation in the Kimberley of Western Australia is a world famous Lagerst?tte that exhibits exceptional preservation of a Devonian reef community....	Western Australia Western Australia Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....	Devonian Devonian The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era spanning from . It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied....
Great Otway National Park	Victoria (Australia)	Cretaceous
Horseshoe Bay Limestone downs	Waikato Waikato Waikato is the name of a region in the North Island of New Zealand. Exact boundaries of the region depend largely on the use of the name, but in all cases it refers to an area around the city of Hamilton, New Zealand and extending along the banks of the Waikato River.... (New Zealand)	Cretaceous
Knocklofty Formation	Tasmania (Australia)	Lower Triassic
Lake Callabonna Lake Callabonna Lake Callabonna is a dry salt lake with little to no vegetation in South Australia.The first pastoralists in the area were the Ragless brothers in 1881, who moved there from the northern Flinders Ranges, opening a sheep-run....	South Australia	Pleistocene
Lake Mungo Lake Mungo Lake Mungo is a dry lake in south-western New South Wales, Australia. It is located about 760 km due west of Sydney and 90 km north-east of Mildura, Victoria....	New South Wales (Australia)	Pleistocene
Lake Palankarinna Fossil Reserve	South Australia: Tirari Desert Tirari Desert The Tirari Desert is a desert in the eastern part of the Far North, South Australia region of South Australia.The desert is known for salt lakes and large north-south running sand dunes....	Pliocene
Lancefield Swamp Lancefield Swamp The Lancefield Swamp is a rich fossil deposit from the Pleistocene Epoch was discovered in the 19th century near Lancefield, Victoria, Victoria, Australia....	Victoria (Australia)	Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
Lightning Ridge Lightning Ridge, New South Wales Lightning Ridge is a town in north-western New South Wales, Australia, in Walgett Shire Council, near the southern border of Queensland. Lightning Ridge is a world epicentre of the mining of black opals and other opal gemstones....	New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland.... (Australia)	Cretaceous
Mammoth Cave Margaret River File:Margaret River Map.pngFile:Margaret River Western Australia SMC 2006.jpgMargaret River is a river in southwest Australia Western Australia....	Western Australia	Pleistocene?
Mampuwordu Sands Formation	South Australia	Pliocene
Murgon	Queensland Queensland Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south.... (Australia)	Eocene Eocene The Eocene Geologic time scale is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era....
Naracoorte Cave Naracoorte Caves National Park Naracoorte Caves is a national park near Naracoorte in the Limestone Coast tourism region in the south-east of South Australia . It was officially recognised in 1994 for its extensive fossil record when the site was inscribed on the World Heritage List, along with Riversleigh.... s	South Australia	Pleistocene
Quanbun	Western Australia	Pliocene Pliocene The Pliocene epoch is the period in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.332 million to 1.806 million years before present.The Pliocene is the second epoch of the Neogene period in the Cenozoic era.... /Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain....
Riversleigh Riversleigh Riversleigh, in North West Queensland, is Australia's most famous fossil site. The 100 km? area has fossil remains of ancient mammals, birds and reptiles of Oligocene and Miocene age....	Queensland (Australia)	Oligocene/Miocene
Waipara Formation	Canterbury Canterbury, New Zealand The Regions of New Zealand of Canterbury is mainly composed of the Canterbury Plains and the surrounding mountains. Its main city, Christchurch, hosts the main office of the Christchurch City Council, the Canterbury Regional Council and the University of Canterbury.... (New Zealand)	Paleogene
Wianamatta Series	New South Wales: Sydney Sydney Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....	Late Triassic Late Triassic The Late Triassic is in the geologic timescale the third and final of three epoch s of the Triassic geological timescale. The corresponding series is known as the Upper Triassic....

South America

Site	Country/State	Age
Abanico Formation Tinguiririca Tinguiririca fauna The fossil Tinguiririca fauna, entombed in lahar and Volcanic ash at the onset of the Oligocene, about 33-31.5 million years ago, represents a unique snapshot of the history of South America's endemic fauna, which was extinguished when the former island continent was joined to North America by the rising Isthmus of Panama....	Chile Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....	Oligocene Oligocene The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Geologic Timescale and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present.... (Rupelian Rupelian The Rupelian is the first of two faunal stage of the Oligocene epoch . It spans the time between 33.9 ? 0.1 annum and 28.4 ? 0.1 Ma . The stage is named after the Rupel river in Belgium.... )
Allen Formation Allen Formation The is a geological Formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	Argentina Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....	Upper Cretaceous (Campanian Campanian The Campanian is a faunal stage on the geologic time scale occurring from 83.5 ? 0.7 annum to 70.6 ? 0.6 Ma .It is the middle stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch .... – Maastrichtian Maastrichtian The Maastrichtian is the last faunal stage of the Cretaceous geologic period, and therefore of the Mesozoic geologic era. It spanned from 70.6 ? 0.6 annum to 65.5 ? 0.3 Ma .... )
Anacleto Formation Anacleto Formation The Anacleto Formation is a geologic formation with outcroppings in the Argentina Patagonian provinces of Mendoza Province, R?o Negro Province, and Neuqu?n Province....	Argentina	Upper Cretaceous (Campanian)
Andalgala Formation	Argentina	Miocene Miocene The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain.... /Pliocene Pliocene The Pliocene epoch is the period in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.332 million to 1.806 million years before present.The Pliocene is the second epoch of the Neogene period in the Cenozoic era....
Bajo de la Carpa Formation Bajo de la Carpa Formation The Bajo de la Carpa Formation is a geologic formation that outcrops in Patagonia, in the provinces of R?o Negro Province and Neuqu?n Province, Argentina....	Argentina	Upper Cretaceous (Santonian Santonian The Santonian is a faunal stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch . It spans the time between 85.8 ? 0.7 mya and 83.5 ? 0.7 mya.According to the International Commission on Stratigraphy, its start is defied by the appearance of the Inoceramidae bivalve Cladoceramus undulatoplicatus.... )
Beauvoir Formation	Argentina	Upper Jurassic Jurassic The Jurassic is a geologic period that extends from about annum to Ma, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous.... – Lower Cretaceous
Camacho Formation	Uruguay Uruguay Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....	Miocene
Candeleros Formation Candeleros Formation The Candeleros Formation is a geologic formation that outcrops in Rio Negro Province, Neuquen Province, and Mendoza Province provinces of Argentina....	Argentina	Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian Cenomanian \|-\|The Cenomanian age is the first or earliest or oldest Geochronological age of the Late Cretaceous epoch . Like all geological time units the Cenomanian age is associated with a Chronostratigraphic stratum or stage of the same name, the "Cenomanian stage" .... )
Caturrita Formation Caturrita Formation The Caturrita Formation is a sedimentary geological formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It has an early Carnian age .Received this name because, Caturrita is a neighborhood of Santa Maria .... , Santa Maria Formation Santa Maria Formation The Santa Maria Formation is a sedimentary geological formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It has a late Ladinian ? early Carnian age , and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs, including the herrerasaur Staurikosaurus, the basal saurischian Teyuwasu, and the basal sauropodomorpha Saturnalia .... Paleorrota Paleorrota Paleorrota , is a geopark located in the center of the state of the Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, along which are found Triassic rocks and fossils, from a time when there was only the continent Pangaea....	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world.... : Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost States of Brazil of Brazil, and the State with the fourth highest Human Development Index . In Rio Grande do Sul is the most southern city of the country, Chu?, on Uruguayan border....	Permian Permian The PermianThe term "Permian" was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil; Murchison asserted in 1841 that he named his "Permian system" after the ancient kingdom... – Triassic Triassic The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 251 to 199 annum . As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic.... (Carnian Carnian The Carnian is the lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic series . Its boundaries are not characterized by major extinctions or biotic turnovers, but a climatic event occurred during the Carnian and seems to be associated with important extinctions or biotic radiations.... , Norian Norian The Norian Stage was a portion of the Triassic geological period. It dates from 216.5 ? 2.0 to 203.6 ? 1.5 Mya . It was preceded by the Carnian Stage and succeeded by the Rhaetian Stage.... )
Cerro Bandera Formation	Argentina	Miocene
Deseado Formation	Argentina	Oligocene
Ensenada Formation	Argentina	Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
Huincul Formation Huincul Formation The Huincul Formation is a geologic formation that outcrops in Rio Negro Province and Neuquen Province provinces of Argentina. It is the second formation in the R?o Limay Subgroup, the oldest subgroup within the Neuqu?n Group....	Argentina	Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
Ishigualasto Formation	Argentina	Triassic Triassic The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 251 to 199 annum . As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic....
Ituzaingó Formation	Argentina	Upper Miocene (Huayquerian)
Jaguel Formation	Argentina	Upper Cretaceous/Lower Paleocene (Maastrichtian – Danian Danian The Danian is the first faunal stage of the Paleocene epoch , making up the Early Paleocene sub-epoch. The beginning of the stage is defined by the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event 65.5 ? 0.3 annum .... )
Lemaire Formation	Argentina	Upper Jurassic
Leticia Formation	Argentina	Eocene Eocene The Eocene Geologic time scale is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era.... (Bartonian Bartonian The Bartonian is a faunal stage of the middle Eocene epoch . It spans the time between 40.4 ? 0.2 annum and 37.2 ? 0.2 Ma .... )
Lecho Formation Lecho Formation The is a geological Formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	Argentina	Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Lisandro Formation	Argentina	Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian – Turonian Turonian The Turonian is a faunal stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch . It spans the time between 93.5 ? 0.8 annum and 89.3 ? 1 Ma .The Turonien was definied by the French paleontologist Alcide d'Orbigny , who named it after the city of Tours in the French department of Indre-et-Loire.... )
Lohan Cura Formation Lohan Cura Formation The Lohan Cura Formation is a geologic formation with outcrops in the Argentina provinces of Rio Negro Province, Neuquen Province, and Mendoza Province....	Argentina	Lower Cretaceous (Aptian Aptian Aptian stage is a faunal stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch in the geologic timescale, that extends from 125.0 ? 1.0 annum to 112.0 ? 1.0 Ma , approximately.... – Albian Albian Albian is a faunal stage of the Cretaceous geologic timescale.Albian is a term proposed in 1842 by A. d'Orbigny for that stage of the Cretaceous system which comes above the Aptian and below the Cenomanian .... )
Mylodon Cave	Chile	Pleistocene
Olmedo Formation	Argentina	Paleocene Paleocene The Paleocene or Palaeocene, "early dawn of the recent" is a geologic epoch that lasted from 65.5 ? 0.3 Mega-annum to 55.8 ? 0.2 Ma . It is the first epoch of the Palaeogene Period in the modern Cenozoic era ....
Quinriquina Formation	Chile	Cretaceous Cretaceous The Cretaceous , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide, is a geologic period from circa to million years ago . In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows on the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period....
Patagonia Molasses	Argentina	Miocene
Pinturas Formation	Argentina	Miocene (Burdigalian Burdigalian Burdigalian is a age of the early Miocene epoch . It spans the time between 20.43 ? 0.05 annum and 15.97 ? 0.05 Ma . It is named after Burdigala, the original name for Bordeaux, France.... – Langhian Langhian Langhian is the older International Commission on Stratigraphy age of the Middle Miocene epoch . It spans the time between 15.97 ? 0.05 annum and 13.65 ? 0.05 Ma .... )
Plottier Formation Plottier Formation The Plottier Formation is a geologic formation that outcrops in the Argentina Patagonian provinces of R?o Negro Province and Neuqu?n Province. It is the younger of two formations belonging to the R?o Neuqu?n Subgroup within the Neuqu?n Group, with the oldest rocks dating from the late Coniacian and its youngest maybe from the very start of th...	Argentina	Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian Coniacian The Coniacian is a faunal stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch . It spans the time between 89.3 ? 1 annum and 85.8 ? 0.7 Ma .... – ?Santonian)
Portezuelo Formation Portezuelo Formation The Portezuelo Formation is a geologic formation outcropping in the Mendoza Province, R?o Negro Province and Neuqu?n Province provinces of Argentina....	Argentina	Upper Cretaceous (Turonian – Coniacian)
Rio Colorado Formation Auca Mahuevo Auca Mahuevo The sedimentary deposits in eroded badlands at Auca Mahuevo in the Patagonian province of Neuquen, Argentina, are among the paleontology's rare lagerst?tten, the undisturbed strata that give glimpses of a range of ecology at a given moment in the History of Earth....	Argentina	Cretaceous
Roca Formation	Argentina	Paleocene
San Julian Formation	Argentina	Eocene/Oligocene
Santa Cruz Formation	Argentina	Miocene
Santana Formation Santana Formation The Santana Formation is a geologic Lagerst?tten in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piau? and Cear? come together.... Crato Member	Brazil	Cretaceous
Santa Maria Formation Santa Maria Formation The Santa Maria Formation is a sedimentary geological formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It has a late Ladinian ? early Carnian age , and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs, including the herrerasaur Staurikosaurus, the basal saurischian Teyuwasu, and the basal sauropodomorpha Saturnalia .... Paleorrota Paleorrota Paleorrota , is a geopark located in the center of the state of the Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, along which are found Triassic rocks and fossils, from a time when there was only the continent Pangaea....	Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul	Permian Permian The PermianThe term "Permian" was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil; Murchison asserted in 1841 that he named his "Permian system" after the ancient kingdom... – Triassic Triassic The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 251 to 199 annum . As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic.... (Ladinian Ladinian The Ladinian is a faunal stage of the Middle Triassic epoch . It spans the time between 237 ? 2 annum and 228 ? 2 Ma . The Ladinian was preceded by the Anisian Stage and succeeded by the Carnian Stage of the Late Triassic Period.... – Carnian Carnian The Carnian is the lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic series . Its boundaries are not characterized by major extinctions or biotic turnovers, but a climatic event occurred during the Carnian and seems to be associated with important extinctions or biotic radiations.... )
Sloggett Formation	Argentina	Upper Eocene/Lower Oligocene
Solimões Formation	Brazil	Upper Miocene/Lower Pliocene
Toca de Boa Vista Caves	Brazil	Pleistocene
Touro Passo Formation	Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul	Upper Pleistocene Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is a faunal stage of the Pleistocene epoch . The beginning of the stage is defined by the base of Eemian interglacial phase before final glacial episode of Pleistocene 126,000 ? 5,000 years ago.... – Holocene
Tunal Formation	Argentina	Paleocene Paleocene The Paleocene or Palaeocene, "early dawn of the recent" is a geologic epoch that lasted from 65.5 ? 0.3 Mega-annum to 55.8 ? 0.2 Ma . It is the first epoch of the Palaeogene Period in the modern Cenozoic era ....
Urumaco Formation Urumaco Urumaco Urumaco is a town in Falc?n, Venezuela.It is of world importance for its fossils. The arid climate of the region means that the fossils are not hidden by vegetation....	Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....	Miocene
Villavieja Formation La Venta La Venta (Colombia) La Venta is a settlement in Tolima Department, Colombia. Nearby, one of the richest Neogene fossil assemblages in the whole of South America is known....	Colombia Colombia Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....	Miocene
Yacoraite Formation	Argentina	Upper Cretaceous/Lower Paleocene (Maastrichtian – Danian)

List of fossil sites

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Oceania

South America

See also

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