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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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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. On the other hand, many formations are for all practical purposes only studied at a single site, usually the type locality
Type locality (geology)

In some natural sciences, type locality is the typical or representative location and is typically the first example of a newly discovered or described object....
.

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

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    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)


    See also

    • Fossil park
      Fossil park

      A protected area with rich deposits of fossils is called a fossil park. Fossil parks are used in educating the public. There are many fossil parks all over the world....
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    • Fossil collecting
      Fossil collecting

      Fossil collecting describes the extraction of fossilised material for profit, pleasure, or scientific study. Fossils - the preserved remains of long-dead organisms - are found in many places where sedimentary rocks, such as claystones, shales, limestones, and sandstones, are exposed....
    • List of fossil parks around the world
      List of fossil parks

      Following is a list of Fossil Parks world wide by country:...
    • List of fossil parks in India
      Fossil Parks of India

      The Geological Survey of India currently maintains two List of protected areas in India bearing rich fossil deposits.* Shivalik Fossil Park, near Saketi, Himachal Pradesh....
    • List of dinosaur bearing rock formations
    • List of human fossils
      List of human fossils

      The following charts give a brief overview of several notable primate fossil finds relating to human evolution. As there are thousands of fossils, this overview is not meant to be complete, but does show some of the most important finds....
    • List of notable fossils
      List of notable fossils

      This is a list of notable Fossil .Note: this does not attempt to be an exhausive list of fossils, of which there are millions, but those that are of enough significance to merit a wikipedia article....
    • Mary Anning
      Mary Anning

      Mary Anning was an early British fossil collector and paleontology....
    • Paleobiology
      Paleobiology

      Paleobiology is a growing and comparatively new discipline which combines the methods and findings of the natural science biology with the methods and findings of the earth science paleontology....
    • Paleontology
      Paleontology

      File:Geological time spiral - sharper.pngPaleontology from Greek: pa?a??? "old, ancient", ??, ??t- "being, creature", and ????? "speech, thought" is the study of prehistory life, including organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments ....
    • Rockhounding
      Rockhounding

      Rockhounding is the recreational collecting of Rock and/or mineral specimens from their natural environment.Early rockhounds were Prospectings looking for valuable minerals and gemstones for commercial purposes....


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