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| x Anacleto Formation |
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The Anacleto Formation is a geologic formation with outcroppings in the Argentine Patagonian provinces of Mendoza, Río Negro, and Neuquén. It is the youngest formation within the Neuquén Group and belongs to the Río Colorado Subgroup. Formerly that...
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| x Arundel Formation |
The Arundel Formation, also known as the Arundel Clay, is a clay-rich sedimentary rock formation, within the Potomac Group, found in Maryland of the United States of America. It is of Aptian age (Lower Cretaceous). This rock unit had been...
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| x Bahariya Formation |
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The Bahariya Formation (Baharija Formation) is a fossil bearing geologic formation dating back to the Cenomanian, geographically located in Marsa Matruh, central Egypt.
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| x Bajo de la Carpa Formation |
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The Bajo de la Carpa Formation is a geologic formation that outcrops in Patagonia, in the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén, Argentina. It is the first of two formations belonging to the Río Colorado Subgroup within the Neuquén Group. Formerly that...
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| x Berivotra Formation |
The Berivotra Formation is an Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) sedimentary rock marine formation found in Madagascar, that is contemporary to the terrestrial Maevarano Formation.
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| x Candeleros Formation |
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The Candeleros Formation (formerly known as the Candeleros Member of the "Rio Limay Formation") is a geologic formation that outcrops in Río Negro, Neuquén, and Mendoza provinces of Argentina. It is the oldest formation in the Neuquén Group and...
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| x Chalk Group |
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The Chalk Group (often just called the Chalk) is a lithostratigraphic unit (a certain number of rock strata) in the northwestern part of Europe. It is characterised by thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine...
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| x Dakota Formation |
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The Dakota Formation is composed of sedimentary rocks deposited on the east side of the Late Cretaceous seaway. F.B. Meek and F.V. Hayden named it for exposures along the Missouri River near Dakota City, Nebraska. The strata lie unconformably atop...
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| x Deccan Traps |
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The Deccan Traps are a large igneous province located on the Deccan Plateau of west-central India (between 17–24N, 73–74E) and one of the largest volcanic features on Earth. They consist of multiple layers of solidified flood basalt that together...
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| x Dinosaur Cove |
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Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia is a 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 (map). The inaccessible ocean-front cliffs include...
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| x Dinosaur Dreaming |
Dinosaur Dreaming is a Palaeontological site situated near Inverloch, Victoria, Australia. Remains of primitive mammals from the Cretaceous Age were first uncovered there in 1997 by researchers from Museum Victoria and the Monash University Science...
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| x Gault Clay |
The Gault Clay is a formation of stiff blue clay deposited in a calm, fairly deep water marine environment during the Lower Cretaceous Period (Upper and Middle Albian). It is well exposed in the coastal cliffs at Copt Point in Folkestone, Kent,...
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| x Glen Rose Formation |
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The Glen Rose Formation is a shallow marine to shoreline geological formation from the lower Cretaceous period exposed over a large area from South Central to North Central Texas. The formation is most widely known for the dinosaur footprints and...
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| x Horseshoe Canyon Formation |
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The Horseshoe Canyon Formation is part of the Edmonton Group and is up to 230m in thickness. It is Late Campanian to Early Maastrichtian in age (Edmontonian Land Mammal Age) and is composed of mudstone, sandstone, and carbonaceous shales. There are...
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| x Huincul Formation |
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The Huincul Formation is a geologic formation that outcrops in Río Negro and Neuquén provinces of Argentina. It is the second formation in the Río Limay Subgroup, the oldest subgroup within the Neuquén Group. Formerly that subgroup was treated as a...
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| x Kaiparowits Formation |
The Kaiparowits Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in the Kaiparowits Plateau in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, in the southern part of the Utah in the western United States. It is over 2800 feet (850 m) thick, and is...
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| x Lameta Formation |
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The Lameta Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, India. It is of Maastrichtian age (Upper Cretaceous), and is notable for its dinosaur fossils. Many dubious names have been created for isolated...
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| x Lisandro Formation |
The Lisandro Formation, alternatively known as the Cerro Lisandro Formation, is a geologic formation with outcrops in the Neuquén province of Argentina. It is the youngest formation within the Río Limay Subgroup, the lowest section of the Neuquén...
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| x Lohan Cura Formation |
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The Lohan Cura Formation is a geologic formation with outcrops in the Argentine provinces of Río Negro, Neuquén, and Mendoza. It is the second oldest Cretaceous terrestrial formation in the Neuquén Basin.
The Lohan Cura Formation unconformably...
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| x Nemegt Formation |
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The Nemegt Formation (or Nemegtskaya Svita) is a geological formation dating from the Late Cretaceous sedimentary from the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. It overlies and sometimes forms folds with the Barun Goyot Formation. It consists of river channel...
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| x Niobrara Chalk |
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The Niobrara Formation, also called the Niobrara Chalk (pronounced /ˌnaɪ.əˈbrærə/), is a geologic formation in North America that was laid down between 87 and 82 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian, and Campanian ages of the Late...
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| x Plottier Formation |
The Plottier Formation is a geologic formation that outcrops in the Argentine Patagonian provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén. It is the younger of two formations belonging to the Río Neuquén Subgroup within the Neuquén Group, with the oldest rocks...
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| x Portezuelo Formation |
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The Portezuelo Formation is a geologic formation outcropping in the Mendoza, Río Negro and Neuquén provinces of Argentina. It is the fourth-oldest formation in the Neuquén Group and the older of the two formations in the Río Neuquén Subgroup....
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| x Santana Formation |
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The Santana Formation is a geologic Lagerstätte (undisturbed fossil accumulation) in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piauí and Ceará come together. The geological formation, named after the village of Santana do...
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| x Subashi Formation |
The Subashi Formation is a late Cretaceous formation from the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of western China. Initially described by Dong Zhiming in 1977, the formation contains remains of Tarbosaurus which were initially described as a separate taxon...
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| x Twin Mountains Formation |
The Twin Mountains Formation, also known as the Twin Mountain Formation, is a sedimentary rock formation, within the Trinity Group, found in Texas of the United States of America. It is a terrestrial formation of Aptian age (Lower Cretaceous), and...
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| x Two Medicine Formation |
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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 (million years ago), during Campanian (Late Cretaceous) time, and is located in northwestern Montana. It crops out to the...
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| x Wangshi Series |
The Wangshi Series is a late Cretaceous sedimentary rock formation found in Shandong and Jiangsu provinces in eastern China. It has been estimated as Campanian in age. Dinosaurs recovered include the large theropod Chingkankousaurus, which is...
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| x Wealden Formation |
The Wealden Group is a group (a sequence of rock strata) in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental (freshwater) facies sedimentary rocks of Valanginian to Barremian age and thus forms part of...
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| x 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. It is known outside the specialized world...
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| x Xinminbao Group |
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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 mountains of the Qinghai Plateau to the south, in the Gonpoquan...
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| x Yixian Formation |
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The Yixian Formation (Chinese: 义县组; Pinyin: yì xiān zǔ) is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period. It is known for its fossils, and is mainly composed...
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| x Bathonian Series |
Bathonian Series refers to a series of rock strata dating from the Bathonian epoch of the Middle Jurassic.
The typical Bathonian Series is the Great Oolite series of England, and the name was derived from the "Bath Oolite", extensively mined and...
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| x Moon-Airel Formation |
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The Moon-Airel Formation is a geological formation in France. It dates back to the early Hettangian.
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| x Posidonienschiefer |
The Posidonienschiefer is a geological formation in Germany. It dates back to the middle Toarcian.
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| x Saltrio Formation |
The Saltrio Formation is a geological formation in Italy. It dates back to the middle Sinemurian.
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| x Kayenta Formation |
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The Kayenta Formation is a geologic layer 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. This rock formation is particularly...
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| x Morrison Formation |
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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. It is composed of mudstone, sandstone,...
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| x Portland Formation |
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The Portland Formation is a geological formation in the northeastern United States. It dates back to the Early Jurassic.
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| x Caturrita Formation |
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The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its sediments were deposited in the Paraná Basin. The formation has a late Carnian to early Norian age (Upper Triassic) and forms part of the Santa Maria Supersequence...
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| x Ischigualasto |
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Ischigualasto is a geological formation and a natural park associated with it in the province of San Juan, north-western Argentina, near the border with Chile. The Ischigualasto Provincial Park is located in the north-east of the province (30°S 68°W...
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| x Laguna Colorada Formation |
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The Laguna Colorada Formation is a geological formation in South America. It dates back to the Late Triassic.
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| x Quebrada del Barro Formation |
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The Quebrada del Barro Formation is a geological formation in South America. It dates back to the Late Triassic.
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| x Santa Maria Formation |
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The Santa Maria Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It has a late Ladinian – early Carnian age (Middle – Upper Triassic), and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs, including the herrerasaur...
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| x Maleri Formation |
The Maleri Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is of Norian age (Upper Triassic), and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs, including the basal saurischian (possible theropod) Alwalkeria.
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| x AL 129-1 |
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AL 129-1 is the fossilized knee joint of the species Australopithecus afarensis. It was discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia by Donald Johanson in November 1973.
It is estimated to be 3-3.2 million years old.
Its characteristics include an elliptical...
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| x AL 200-1 |
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AL200-1 is the fossilized upper palate and teeth of the species Australopithecus afarensis. It was discovered in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia by Donald Johanson in 1975. It is estimated to be 3.0-3.2 million years old.
Its characteristics are an...
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| x Abel |
Abel is the name given to the only specimen ever discovered of Australopithecus bahrelghazali. Abel was found in January 1995 in Chad in the Kanem Region by the paleontologist Michel Brunet, who named the fossil "Abel" in memory of his close friend...
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| x Cro-Magnon 1 |
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Cro-Magnon 1 is a fossilized skull of the species Homo sapiens. It was discovered, with other Cro-Magnon specimens, in Les Eyzies, France by Louis Lartet in 1868.
It is dated to 27.680±270 B.P. The brain cavity measures 1,600 cc.
"Cro-Magnon 1"....
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| x Dakota |
Dakota is the nickname given to a fossil Edmontosaurus from the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota. It is about 67 million years old, placing it in the Maastrichtian, the last stage of the Cretaceous period. It was about 11 m (35 ft) long and...
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| x Dali |
The Dali Skull, or Dali Man , is a nearly complete fossilized skull of a representative of the genus Homo which lived sometime during the Late Middle Pleistocene period. It was discovered by Shuntang Liu in 1978 in Dali County in the Shaanxi...
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| x Gawis cranium |
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The Gawis cranium is a hominid skull discovered on February 16, 2006 near the drainage of Gawis, a tributary of the Awash River in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia. The skull despite volcanic ash layers which hold the key to dating is dated very...
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| x Hofmeyr Skull |
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The Hofmeyr Skull is a specimen of a 36,000 year old human skull found in 1952. It is one of the only modern human skulls discovered in Africa south of Ethiopia which is older than 20,000 years.
The skull was found on the surface of an erosion gully...
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| x Human fossil bones from the Muierii Cave and the Cioclovina Cave, Romania |
The human fossil bones remains from the Muierii Cave (Peştera Muierilor) dated to the age of 30,150 ± 800 years BP, and Cioclovina Cave, dated to the age of 29,000±700 years BP are among the most ancient early modern humans from the Romanian region....
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| x Jane |
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Jane is the nickname given to a fossil specimen of small tyrannosaurid dinosaur (Nanotyrannus lancinator or a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, officially known as BMRP 2002.4.1, discovered in the Hell Creek Formation in southern Montana. After four years...
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| x KNM ER 1805 |
KNM ER 1805 is several pieces of a fossilized skull of the species Homo habilis. It was discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya.
It is estimated to be 1.74 million years old.
Due to its incompleteness it has been the subject of debate as to its...
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| x KNM ER 1813 |
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KNM ER 1813 is a skull. It was discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya by Kamoya Kimeu in 1973, and is estimated to be 1.9 million years old.
Its characteristics include an overall smaller size than other Homo habilis finds but with a fully adult and...
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| x KNM ER 3733 |
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KNM ER 3733 is a fossilised hominid cranium of the extinct hominid Homo ergaster (or erectus) It was discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya by Bernard Ngeneo in 1975.
KNM-ER 3733 is one of the oldest Homo ergaster skulls in the world. In a 1989 publication...
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| x KNM ER 406 |
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KNM ER 406 is a fossilized skull of the species Paranthropus boisei. It was discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya by Richard Leakey in 1969.
It is estimated to be 1.7 million years old.
"Images of KNM ER 406". http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha...
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| x KNM ER 992 |
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KNM ER 992 is a fossilized lower jaw from the species Homo ergaster. It was discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya by in 1971.
It is estimated to be 1.5 million years old.
"Images of KNM ER 992". http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/ER992.html....
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