Fossil beds and rock units from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, famous for dinosaurs, pterosaurs, marine reptiles and early birds and mammals. A site belongs here when its cited article dates it to the Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous. It excludes older Paleozoic sites and younger Cenozoic ones. Fine-grained limestones and shales preserve feathers, skin and soft tissue at several of these sites, which is why they are central to the study of dinosaur evolution.
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Solnhofen Limestone (Wikipedia)
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The Solnhofen Limestone or Solnhofen Plattenkalk, formally known as the Altmühltal Formation, is a Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätte that preserves a rare assemblage of fossilized organisms, including highly detailed imprints of soft bodied organisms such as sea jellies.
Santana Group (Wikipedia)
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The group comprises the Crato, Ipubi and Romualdo Formations and is dated to the Aptian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous.
Crato Formation (Wikipedia)
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The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous (Aptian) age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin.
Tendaguru Formation (Wikipedia)
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It reaches a total sedimentary thickness of more than 110 metres (360 ft). The formation ranges in age from the late Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, Oxfordian to Hauterivian stages, with the base of the formation possibly extending into the Callovian.
Wessex Formation (Wikipedia)
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The Wessex Formation is a fossil-rich English geological formation that dates from the Berriasian to Barremian stages of the Early Cretaceous.
Guanling Formation (Wikipedia)
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The Guanling Formation is a Middle Triassic (Anisian or Pelsonian in the regional chronostratigraphy) geologic formation in southwestern China.
Judith River Formation (Wikipedia)
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It dates to the Late Cretaceous, between 79 and 75.3 million years ago, corresponding to the "Judithian" land vertebrate age.
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