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This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there. Many of the entries in this list are considered Lagerstätten (sedimentary deposits that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues). Lagerstätten are indicated by a note ([Note 1]) in the noteworthiness column.

Fossils may be found either associated with a geological formation or at a single geographic site. Geological formations consist of rock that was deposited during 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. Such sites may have separate entries if they are considered to be more notable than the formation as a whole. In contrast, extensive formations associated with large areas may be equivalently represented at many locations. Such formations may be listed either without a site, with a site or sites that represent the type locality, or with multiple sites of note. When a type locality is listed as the site for a formation with many good outcrops, the site is flagged with a note ([Note 2]). When a particular site of note is listed for an extensive fossil-bearing formation, but that site is somehow atypical, it is also flagged with a note ([Note 3]).

Many formations are for all practical purposes only studied at a single site, and may not even be named. For example, sites associated with hominin, particularly caves, are frequently not identified with a named geologic formation. Therefore, some sites are listed without an associated formation.

List of sites

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Site Group, Formation, or Unit Age Continent Country Noteworthiness
Afar Depression Pliocene Africa Ethiopia
Buia, Danakil Depression Pleistocene Africa Eritrea Hominin
Ahl al Oughlam Late Pliocene Africa Morocco
Ameki Formation Middle Eocene Africa Nigeria
Awash River Pliocene Africa Ethiopia Hominin
Cradle of Humankind Pliocene – Pleistocene Africa South Africa Hominin
Hoedjiespunt Pleistocene Africa South Africa Hominin
Hofmeyr Pleistocene Africa South Africa Hominin
Alnif Cambrian – Late Permian Africa Morocco Trilobites
Jebel Irhoud Pleistocene Africa Morocco Hominin
Jebel Qatrani Formation Eocene – Oligocene Africa Egypt Mammals, birds
Golden Gate Highlands National Park Karoo Supergroup Permian – Early Jurassic Africa Southern Africa
Klasies River Caves Pleistocene (Middle Stone Age) Africa South Africa Hominin: Early Humans
Koobi Fora Pliocene – Pleistocene Africa Kenya Hominin, stone tools
Koro Toro Pliocene Africa Chad Hominin
Laetoli Pliocene – Pleistocene Africa Tanzania Hominin footprints
Ledi-Geraru Pliocene (Piacenzian) Africa Ethiopia Hominin: LD 350-1, oldest fossil in genus Homo[1]
Lothagam Miocene – Pliocene Africa Kenya Hominin and other mammals
Berivotra Maevarano Formation Late Cretaceous Africa Madagascar Dinosaurs (Non-Avian), Crocodylomorphs
Kem Kem Beds Late Cretaceous Africa Morocco Non-Avian Dinosaurs, Crocodylomorphs, etc.
Kamabai rock shelter Pleistocene Africa Sierra Leone Hominin tools
Olduvai Gorge Pliocene Africa Tanzania Hominin
Omo Kibish Omo Kibish Formation (= Kibish Formation) Pliocene – Pleistocene Africa Ethiopia Hominin: australopithecine remains and stone tools
Orapa diamond mine Late Cretaceous Africa Botswana Flowering Plants, Insects
Qasr el Sagha Formation Eocene Africa Egypt
Rusinga Island Miocene Africa Kenya Hominin, mammals
Shungura Formation Pliocene – Early Pleistocene Africa Ethiopia Hominin tools
Taung Pliocene Africa South Africa Hominin
Tendaguru Formation Late Jurassic Africa Tanzania Non-Avian Dinosaurs, etc.
West Coast Fossil Park Terminal Miocene/Early Pliocene Africa South Africa
Yengema Neolithic Africa Sierra Leone Hominin tools
Seymour Island Cross Valley Formation Late Paleocene Antarctica
Seymour Island[Note 2] La Meseta Formation Eocene Antarctica Birds, particularly penguins
Seymour Island López de Bertodano Formation Late Cretaceous – Early Paleocene (Maastrichtian – Danian) Antarctica Non- Avian Dinosaurs, Birds
Seymour Island[Note 2] Sobral Formation Paleocene (Danian) Antarctica
Vega Island López de Bertodano Formation Late Cretaceous – Early Paleocene (Maastrichtian – Danian) Antarctica Non-Avian Dinosaurs, Birds
Longing Peninsula Nordenskjöld Formation Jurassic Antarctica
Mount Kirkpatrick Hanson Formation Early Jurassic Antarctica Dinosaurs, prosauropods, trees|
James Ross Island Late Cretaceous Antarctica Dinosaurs
Mount Falla Falla Formation Triassic Antarctica
Fremouw Peak Fremouw Formation Triassic Antarctica
Cumulus Hills Thrinaxodon Col Triassic Antarctica
Aguja Formation Late Cretaceous North America US: Texas and Mexico: Chihuahua, Coahuila
Ashfall Fossil Beds Ash Hollow Formation (Ogallala Group) Miocene (Clarendonian) North America US: Nebraska Mammals[Note 1]
Astoria, Oregon Astoria Formation Miocene North America US: Oregon
Cutler Fossil Site Sinkhole in Miami Limestone late Pleistocene North America US: Florida humans and vertebrates
Page-Ladson site Sinkhole in Suwannee Limestone Pleistocene/Holocene North America US: Florida Hominin, human/mastodon coexistence
White Rock Creek (Dallas, Texas) Austin Chalk Late Cretaceous North America US: Texas
Travis County, Texas Austin Chalk Late Cretaceous North America US: Texas
Beecher's Trilobite Bed Frankfort Formation Ordovician North America US: New York Trilobites [Note 1]
Mount Blanco[Note 2] Blanco Formation Pliocene/Pleistocene North America US: Kansas, Texas Blancan fauna
Blue Beach Tournaisian North America Canada: Nova Scotia [Note 1]
Little Bob Quarry, Bobcaygeon, Ontario Bobcaygeon Formation Ordovician North America Canada: Ontario
Bone Cabin Quarry Morrison Formation Jurassic North America US: Wyoming Non-Avian Dinosaurs
Brule Formation Oligocene North America US: South Dakota Mammals, sunfish, cat fish
Kootenay National Park[Note 2] Burgess Shale Cambrian (Albertan) North America Canada: British Columbia [Note 1]
Calvert Cliffs State Park[Note 2] Calvert Formation Miocene North America US: Maryland Middle Miocene Climate Transition and Middle Miocene disruption
Goodsell Ridge, Isle La Motte (Lake Champlain) [Note 2] Chazy Formation Ordovician North America US: Vermont Early Reef: bryozoa, corals, stromatoporoids
Chuckanut Drive, south of Bellingham, Washington Chuckanut Formation Eocene North America US: Washington state Fossil trackways from birds, mammals and turtles
Como Bluff Cloverly Formation Early Cretaceous North America US: Montana, Wyoming Non-Avian Dinosaurs, some mammals, turtles, crocodilians, and fish
Coon Creek[Note 2] Coon Creek Formation Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) North America US: Tennessee and Mississippi
  • Marine reptiles, particularly mosasaurs and plesiosaurs
  • Invertebrates: Turritella (sea snails), bryozoans, clams, crabs, shrimp and some sharks
Denali National Park and Preserve[Note 3] Cantwell Formation Late Cretaceous North America US: Alaska Non-Avian Dinosaur tracks,[2] plants, insects
Dinosaur Provincial Park[Note 2] Dinosaur Park Formation Cretaceous (Campanian) North America Canada: Alberta Non- Avian Dinosaurs
Dinosaur State Park Jurassic North America US: Connecticut Dinosaur tracks
Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park Eocene North America Canada: British Columbia Insects and fish
Drumheller, Badlands Mesozoic North America Canada: Alberta
Ellisdale Fossil Site[Note 3] Marshalltown Formation Cretaceous (Campanian) North America US: New Jersey [Note 1]
Ochillee Creek at Old Ochillee [Note 2] Eutaw Formation Cretaceous North America US: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi Dinosaur, mosasaur, and pterosaur
Falls of the Ohio[Note 3] Jefferson Limestone Devonian North America US: Indiana Corals (Tabulate coral and Rugosa
Florissant Fossil Beds Florissant Formation Eocene (Priabonian) North America US: Colorado Insects
Fossil Prairie Park Devonian North America US: Iowa
Mazon Creek Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) North America US: Illinois [Note 1]
Ghost Ranch Triassic North America US: New Mexico Non-Avian Dinosaurs [Note 1]
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument Glenns Ferry Formation Pliocene/Pleistocene North America US: Idaho Hagerman horse ('American Zebra'), Camelops
Dinosaur Valley State Park[Note 2] Glen Rose Formation Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) North America US: Texas Dinosaur footprints
Gray Fossil Site Miocene North America US: Tennessee Mammals
Fossil Butte National Monument[Note 3] Green River Formation Eocene North America US: Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming Fishes [Note 1]
Schreiber, Ontario[Note 2] Gunflint Chert Late Archaean – Early Proterozoic North America Canada: western Ontario & US: Minnesota (Gunflint Range) Stromatolite colonies of cyanobacteria
Hilda mega-bonebed[Note 3] Dinosaur Park Formation Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) North America Canada: Alberta Dinosaurs
Joggins Fossil Cliffs Carboniferous North America Canada: Nova Scotia [Note 1]
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument John Day Formation Oligocene – Miocene North America US: Oregon

Mammals: dogs, cats, oreodonts, saber-toothed cats, horses, camels, and rodents

* Jurassic National Monument in the San Rafael Swell Morrison Formation Jurassic North America US: Utah Non- Avian Dinosaurs and other vertebrates
Clarno Unit, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument Clarno Formation Eocene North America US: Oregon Plants: tropical and subtropical nuts, fruits, roots, branches, and seeds
  • Zion National Park
  • Capitol Reef National Park
  • Canyonlands National Park
 Kayenta Formation (Glen Canyon Group) Jurassic North America US: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah Non- Avian Dinosaurs and other vertebrates
Kishenehn Kishenehn Formation Mid-Eocene North America US: Montana Insects
Klondike Mountain near Republic, Washington [Note 2] Klondike Mountain Formation Eocene (Ypresian) North America US: Washington Plants and Insects[Note 1]
Krukowski Quarry Cambrian North America US: Wisconsin
La Brea Tar Pits Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) North America US: California [Note 1]
Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site Woodbury Formation Cretaceous North America US: New Jersey Dinosaurs: Hadrosaurus
Franceville basin Francevillian B Formation Palaeoproterozoic Africa Gabon Possible earliest evidence for multicellularity in fossil record, known for Francevillian Biota
The Mammoth Site Pleistocene: Rancholabrean North America US: South Dakota [Note 1]
Manchester Quarry Triassic North America US: Connecticut
Manuels River Cambrian North America Canada: Newfoundland Trilobites
McAbee Fossil Beds Eocene North America Canada: British Columbia [Note 1] Plants, insects, and fish
Melbourne Bone Bed Pleistocene North America US: Florida Megafauna, Hominin (the "Melbourne Man")
Miguasha National Park Devonian (Famennian) North America Canada: Québec [Note 1]
Mistaken Point Mistaken Point Formation Ediacaran North America Canada Ediacara biota (early multicellular life)
Como Bluff Morrison Formation Late Jurassic North America Canada/United States (Great Plains)
Edson Quarry Ogallala Formation Miocene/Pliocene North America US: Kansas
Ogallala Formation Miocene/Pliocene North America US: Texas
Champlain Bridge (Ottawa), Quebec side Pamelia Formation Late Ordovician North America Canada: Quebec, Gatineau, Aylmer
Pipe Creek Sinkhole Pliocene North America US: Indiana
Minnehaha Park Platteville Limestone Ordovician North America US: Minnesota
Minneapolis–Saint Paul (Mississippi River bluffs) Platteville Limestone Ordovician North America US: Minnesota
Burgoon Run in Blair County, Pennsylvania[Note 2][citation needed] Pocono Formation Carboniferous (Mississippian) North America US: Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Lee Creek Mine Pungo River Formation Miocene North America US: North Carolina
Purgatoire River track site Late Jurassic North America US: Colorado Dinosaurs: Footprints
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument Rattlesnake Formation Miocene (Tortonian-Messinian) North America US: Oregon
Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite Sundance Formation Middle Jurassic North America US: Wyoming Dinosaurs: Footprints
Rincón Colorado Cretaceous North America Mexico: Coahuila
Walcott-Rust quarry Rust Formation Late Ordovician North America US: New York [Note 1]
Schoonmaker Reef and Soldiers' Home Reef Silurian North America US: Wisconsin Reefs (the first discovered in North America)
Como Bluff Sundance Formation Late Jurassic North America US: Wyoming
Path 15 bone bed, San Joaquin Valley Temblor Formation Miocene North America US: California
Tepetate Formation Cretaceous – Middle Eocene North America Mexico
Wichita Falls[Note 2] Texas Red Beds Permian North America US: Texas Tetrapods
Thomas Farm Site Miocene North America US: Florida
Wannagan Creek site, Theodore Roosevelt National Park Tongue River Formation (= Bullion Creek Fm.) Paleocene: Tiffanian North America US: North Dakota Mammals, reptiles, birds
Egg Mountain site [Note 3] Two Medicine Formation Cretaceous (Campanian) North America US: Montana Dinosaurs, particularly eggs and young
Wheeler Amphitheater in Millard County, Utah [Note 2] Wheeler Shale Cambrian North America US: Utah Trilobites[Note 1]
Woodbine Formation Cretaceous (Cenomanian) North America US: Texas Dinosaurs and crocodilians
Ziegler Reservoir fossil site ('Snowmastodon Site') Pleistocene (Illinoian (stage)) North America US: Colorado Mastodon and other ice age vertebrates
Zion National Park Navajo Sandstone Triassic – Jurassic North America US: Utah ?
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument Arikaree Group
  • Gering Formation
  • Monroe Creek formation
  • Harrison Formation
 Miocene North America US: Nebraska
Potomac River Aquia Formation Paleocene North America US: Maryland and Virginia
Arkona Shale Devonian North America Canada: Ontario
Waco Mammoth National Monument Pleistocene North America US: Texas
Tanis Hell Creek Formation End of Cretaceous/start of Cenozoic (65.76 Ma ± 0.15 Mya) North America United States Apparent Lagerstätte and killing field capturing the first minutes and hours after the Chicxulub impactor and initiation of the KPg extinction event
Anjar Formation Maastrichtian Asia India Dinosaur eggs
Balabansai Formation Late Jurassic Asia Kazakhstan Dinosaurs
Barun Goyot Formation Late Cretaceous Asia Mongolia Dinosaurs, birds and mammals
Bayan Shireh Formation Late Cretaceous Asia Mongolia
Baynunah Formation Late Miocene Asia United Arab Emirates
Bes-Konak Oligocene Asia Turkey Insects
Bissekty Formation Cretaceous Asia Uzbekistan
Bostobynskaya Formation (= Bostobe Formation) Late Cretaceous (Turonian–Campanian) Asia Kazakhstan Dinosaurs
Bugti Hills Oligocene Asia Pakistan Mammals (Haplorhini)
Chaomidianzi Formation Early Cretaceous (Barremian-Aptian) Asia China
Dabeigou Formation Cretaceous Asia China
Rizal, Kalinga Pleistocene Asia Philippines Hominin
Callao Cave, Cagayan Valley Pleistocene Asia Philippines Hominin
Tabon Cave, Palawan Pleistocene Asia Philippines Hominin
Dainichi Formation Late Pliocene Asia Japan
Shaximiao Formation Middle Jurassic Asia China Dinosaurs
Dashuigou Formation Early Cretaceous Asia China Dinosaurs
Flaming Cliffs[Note 2] Djadochta Formation Late Cretaceous Asia Mongolia Dinosaurs, eggs
Dumugol Formation Early Ordovician Asia Korea
Ejinhoro Formation Early Cretaceous Asia China Dinosaurs
Es Skhul Pliocene Asia Israel: Mount Carmel Hominin
Fangou Formation Paleocene Asia China
Hakel Cretaceous Asia Lebanon
Huadian Formation Eocene Asia China
Indricotherium Formation Oligocene Asia Kazakhstan
Irdin Manha Formation Eocene Asia Mongolia
Iren Dabasu Formation Late Cretaceous Asia China Dinosaurs
Iwaki Formation Early Oligocene Asia Japan
Jindong Formation Cretaceous Asia Korea
Jiufotang Formation Early Cretaceous Asia China Feathered dinosaurs, birds, pterosaurs
Kampong Trach cave Miocene Asia Cambodia
Khukhtek Formation Early Cretaceous Asia Mongolia Dinosaurs
Balasinor (Raiyoli) Asia India Dinosaurs
Deh-e Alireza, Kerman (fa) Jurassic Asia Iran Dinosaur footprints, fish
Kishima Group
  • Daimyoji Formation
  • Funazu Formation
  • Itanoura Formation
  • Kakinoura Formation
  • Kishima Formation
  • Magome Formation
  • Matsushima Formation
  • Okinoshima Formation
  • Oshima Formation
 Late Eocene/Early Oligocene Asia Japan
Kitadani Quarry Kitadani Formation Early Cretaceous Asia Japan
Kızılırmak Formation[3] Tortonian Asia Turkey: Evren, Ankara
Kota Formation Early Jurassic Asia India
Tategahana, Lake Nojiri Pleistocene (Paleolithic) Asia Japan Paleolithic artifacts
Lameta Formation Late Cretaceous Asia India
Lang Trang Caves Pleistocene Asia Vietnam
Liang Bua Cave Pleistocene Asia Indonesia: Flores Hominin
Lufeng Formation Jurassic Asia China
Luoping[4] Middle Triassic Asia China: Yunnan Very numerous fossils of diverse marine ecosystem
Chengjiang County Maotianshan Shales Cambrian Asia China [Note 1]
Li Mae Long Miocene Asia Thailand Mammals
Minatogawa Limestone Quarry Neogene Asia Japan Hominin
Nagura Formation Middle Miocene Asia Japan
Mandla Plant Fossils National Park Late Jurassic-Paleogene Asia India plants
Maleri Formation (Upper and Lower) Late Triassic Asia India
Minhe Formation Late Cretaceous Asia China Dinosaurs
Nemegt Formation Late Cretaceous Asia Mongolia Dinosaur fossil, Riverine animals: fish, turtles, crocodilians, birds
Ngandong (Bengawan Solo River) Pleistocene Asia Indonesia: Java Hominin: Solo Man
Oi Formation Early Miocene Asia Japan
Qafzeh cave Pliocene Asia Israel: Nazareth Hominin
Sambungmacan Pleistocene Asia Indonesia
Sangiran Pleistocene Asia Indonesia Hominin
Shivalik Fossil Park Siwaliks formations Pleistocene Asia India
Sao Khua Formation Early Cretaceous Asia Thailand Dinosaurs
Shishugou Formation Late Jurassic Asia China Dinosaurs
Tabun Cave Pliocene Asia Israel: Mount Carmel Hominin
Tham Khuyen cave Jurassic Asia Vietnam
Tiaojishan Formation Middle Jurassic Asia China Plants, with dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and insects
Trinil Pleistocene Asia Indonesia: Java Hominin, "Java Man"
Tuchengzi Formation Early Cretaceous Asia China
Tugulu Group Early Cretaceous Asia China
Udurchukan Formation Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian?) Asia Russia Dinosaurs
Uhangri Formation Late Cretaceous Asia Korea Pterosaur tracks
Wucaiwan member, Shishugou Formation Middle Jurassic Asia China Dinosaurs
Xiagou Formation Cretaceous Asia China
Xinminbao Group
  • Chijinbao Formation
  • Digou Formation
  • Zhonggou Formation
 Early Cretaceous Asia China
Xiushan Formation Early Silurian (Llandovery) Asia China: Guizhou
Yamaga Formation Late Oligocene Asia Japan
Yixian Formation Early Cretaceous Asia China [Note 1] Jehol Biota, See also: Paleobiota of the Yixian Formation
Yuliangze Formation Late Cretaceous Asia China Dinosaurs and other vertebrates
Yushima Formation (= Tatsunokuchi Formation) Early Pliocene Asia Japan
Baissa Zaza Formation Early Cretaceous Asia Russia Insects: Pterygota
Zhongming Formation Devonian Asia China
Zhoukoudian Pleistocene Asia China Hominin, "Peking Man"
Shanwang National Geological Park Shanwang Formation Miocene Asia China: Shandong Exceptional preservation of external body features such as skin, hair, scales and feathers
Aetokremnos Holocene (Mesolithic) Europe Cyprus
Monte San Giorgio Triassic Europe Switzerland and Italy
Aix-en-Provence Oligocene Europe France Insects, fishes
Ana Arcillas de Morella Formation Late Cretaceous Europe Spain
Atapuerca Pleistocene (Lower Paleolithic) Europe Spain Hominin
Aust Cliff Triassic Europe England Insects, Rhaetic bone bed
Batallones Miocene Europe Spain Carnivora
Bouldner, Isle of Wight Bembridge Marls, Bouldnor Formation Oligocene Europe England
Bois d'Asson Oligocene Europe France Insects
Borgloon Formation Oligocene Europe Belgium
Schmerling Caves Holocene Europe Belgium hominin, Engis 2 was the first Neanderthal fossil ever found
Buñol Miocene Europe Spain
Calizas de La Huérguina Formation Cretaceous (Barremian) Europe Spain
Dinosaur Quarry of Altamura Upper Cretaceous Europe Italy Dinosaur footprints (at least four thousand)
Ceprano Pleistocene Europe Italy Hominin, Homo cepranensis (single find)
Céreste Oligocene Europe France Insects, fishes
Isernia La Pineta Pleistocene Europe Italy
Baccinello Miocene Europe Italy Hominin: Oreopithecus bambolii
Binagadi asphalt lake Early Pleistocene Europe Azerbaijan Birds, Mammals
Crevillente Miocene Europe Spain
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil Pleistocene Europe France Hominin: Crô-Magnon
Cuevas de los Murciélagos Pleistocene/Holocene Europe Spain: La Palma, Canary Islands
Dmanisi Pleistocene Europe Georgia Hominin (Homo erectus georgicus), stone tools
Dob's Linn Ordovician-Silurian boundary Europe Scotland Graptolites
Dorkovo Early Pliocene Europe Bulgaria Mastodon
Enspel Oligocene Europe Germany Insects, mammals
Es Pouás Pleistocene/Holocene Europe Spain: Ibiza (Balearic Islands)
Fossil Grove Limestone Coal Formation (Clackmannan Group) Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) Europe Scotland: Glasgow Plants
Fur Formation Early Eocene Europe Denmark [Note 1]
Gram Formation Middle-Late Miocene Europe Denmark
Gauja Formation Middle Devonian Europe Estonia and Latvia
Geisel valley Eocene Europe Germany
Gilwern Hill Ordovician Europe Wales
Gotland Silurian Europe Sweden
Grès à Reptiles Jurassic Europe France Dinosaurs
Guimarota Late Jurassic Europe Portugal Dinosaurs and mammals
Hampstead Formation Oligocene Europe England
Hrútagíl Mókollsdalur formation Miocene Europe Iceland Insects
Hunsrück Slates Devonian Europe Germany: Bundenbach [Note 1]
Insect Limestone Late Eocene Europe England (Isle of Wight) Insects
Jurassic Coast Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Europe England Ammonites and reptiles
Kattendijk Sands Pliocene Europe Belgium Auk (birds)
Kleinkems Oligocene Europe Germany Insects
Kostolac-Viminacium Pleistocene Europe Serbia
Kozarnika Pleistocene (Lower Paleolithic) Europe Bulgaria Hominin: Early human symbolic behavior
Hušnjak hill (Krapina) Pleistocene Europe Croatia
La Chapelle-aux-Saints Pleistocene Europe France Hominin: Neanderthal burial
La Ferrassie Pleistocene Europe France Hominin
La Roma Miocene Europe Spain
Las Hoyas Cretaceous Europe Spain Dinosaurs [Note 1]
Liedena Sandstone Late Eocene (Priabonian) Europe Spain: Navarra
Lo Hueco Cretaceous Europe Spain
London Clay Eocene Europe England [Note 1]
Löwenstein Formation Late Triassic Europe Germany Dinosaurs
Lourinhã Formation Late Jurassic Europe Portugal
Lyme Regis Jurassic Europe England: Dorset Jurassic Coast
Maastricht Formation Cretaceous Europe Benelux Dinosaurs
Maltravieso Cave Pleistocene Europe Spain
Mauer Pleistocene Europe Germany Hominin
Messel Pit Messel Oil Shale Eocene Europe Germany Geiseltalian flora and fauna [Note 1]
Monte Bolca Eocene Europe Italy [Note 1]
Murero Cambrian Europe Spain
Neandertal (e.g., Kleine Feldhofer Grotte) Pleistocene Europe Germany Hominin
Öhningen Miocene Europe Germany Insects, fishes
Oxford Clay Jurassic Europe England Fish and invertebrates
Paris Basin (Argille Plastique) Early Eocene Europe France
Pobiti Kamani Mesozoic Europe Bulgaria
Pontnewydd Cave Pleistocene (Paleolithic) Europe Wales Hominin: Neanderthals
Quercy Phosphorites Eocene/Oligocene Europe France
Radoboj Miocene Europe Croatia Insects
Repedea Hill Fossil Site Neogene Europe Romania
Cozla Fossil Site Oligocene Europe Romania
Pietricica Fossil Site Oligocene Europe Romania
Cernegura Fossil Site Oligocene Europe Romania
Rhynie, Aberdeenshire Rhynie Chert Devonian Europe Scotland Plants, Cyanobacteria, first Hexapoda[Note 1]
Riodeva Jurassic/Cretaceous Europe Spain Dinosaurs
Rott Oligocene Europe Germany Insects, fishes
Sajóvölgyi Formation Miocene (Serravallian) Europe Hungary
Sânpetru Formation Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Europe Romania
Sansan Miocene Europe France Hominin: Pliopithecus
Santa Ana Cave Pleistocene Europe Spain
Sieblos Dysodil Oligocene Europe Germany
Slieve Anierin Namurian Europe Ireland Goniatites, and Bivalvia, marine and coastal fauna.
Solnhofen limestone Jurassic Europe Germany [Note 1]
Stránská skála Moravian Karst formation Pleistocene Europe Czech Republic:Moravia Marine and coastal fauna, fishes, birds, mammals
Trachilos footprints Miocene Europe Greece Hominin footprints
Turritellenplatte Miocene (mid-Burdigalian) Europe Germany: Baden-Württemberg Gastropods:sea snail Turritella turris
Upper Valdarno Pleistocene (Villafranchian) Europe Italy: Tuscany
Valkenburg Formation Cretaceous Europe Belgium
Donetsk Carboniferous Europe Ukraine Plants
Razdolne Devonian Europe Ukraine
Venta del Moro Miocene Europe Spain
Venta Micena Pliocene Europe Spain
Wessex Formation Cretaceous Europe England
Willershausen Pliocene Europe Germany Insects
Untermassfeld Early Pleistocene Europe Germany Hominin (controversial)
Alcoota Miocene Oceania Australia: Northern Territory Marsupials, birds and crocodiles
Apex Chert Archaean Oceania Australia: Western Australia (Marble Bar)
Saint Bathans Fauna Bannockburn Formation Miocene Oceania New Zealand: Otago
Bluff Downs Allingham Formation Pliocene Oceania Australia: Queensland wetland fauna
Bullock Creek Camfield Fossil Beds Miocene Oceania Australia: Northern Territory Marsupials
Canowindra-Gooloogong Devonian Oceania Australia: New South Wales [Note 1]
Cape Range National Park Miocene-Pleistocene Oceania Australia: Western Australia Coral reefs, marine and coastal fauna
Cuddie Springs Pleistocene Oceania Australia: New South Wales Megafauna/human interaction (bones with stone artifacts)
Curio Bay Jurassic Oceania New Zealand: Southland (The Catlins) Petrified forest
Denmark Hill Insect Bed Late Triassic Oceania Australia: Ipswich, Queensland Insects
Dinosaur Cove Cretaceous Oceania Australia: Victoria Dinosaurs
Dinosaur Dreaming Cretaceous Oceania Australia: Victoria Mammals
Ditjimanka LF Oligocene Oceania Australia: South Australia
Ediacara Hills Ediacaran Oceania Australia: South Australia (Flinders Ranges) Ediacara biota (early multicellular life)[Note 1]
Emu Bay Shale Early Cambrian Oceania Australia: South Australia (Kangaroo Island) [Note 1]
Etadunna Formation Oligocene/Miocene Oceania Australia: South Australia
Foulden Maar Early Miocene Oceania New Zealand: Otago
Georgina Basin Neoproterozoic – late Paleozoic Oceania Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland
Gogo Formation Devonian Oceania Australia: Western Australia [Note 1]
Goldie Chert Middle-Late Cambrian Oceania Australia: Victoria
Grenfell fossil site Hunter Siltstone Formation Devonian Oceania Australia: New South Wales Fishes
Greta Siltstone Formation Late Pliocene Oceania New Zealand: Canterbury (Hurunui)
Heathcote siltstone Early Silurian- Late Devonian Oceania Australia: Victoria [citation needed]
Horseshoe Bay Limestone Downs Cretaceous Oceania New Zealand: Waikato [citation needed]
Kangaroo Wells Miocene Oceania Australia: Northern Territory [citation needed]
Knocklofty Formation Early Triassic Oceania Australia: Tasmania [citation needed]
Knowsley East Formation Middle-late Cambrian Oceania Australia: Victoria [citation needed]
Lake Callabonna Pleistocene Oceania Australia: South Australia Marsupials, birds
Lake Mungo Pleistocene Oceania Australia: New South Wales Hominin
Lake Ngapakaldi to Lake Palankarinna Fossil Area Pliocene Oceania Australia: South Australia (Tirari Desert) Variety of vertebrates
Lancefield Swamp Pleistocene Oceania Australia: Victoria Australian megafauna, mostly Macropus giganteus
Lightning Ridge Cretaceous Oceania Australia: New South Wales Mammals
Mammoth Cave Pleistocene? Oceania Australia: Western Australia
Mampuwordu Sands Miocene Oceania Australia: South Australia
Murgon fossil site Eocene Oceania Australia: Queensland (south-east) Mammals (Tingamarra Fauna)
Naracoorte Caves Pleistocene Oceania Australia: South Australia Australian megafauna, World Heritage List
Pindai Caves Holocene Oceania New Caledonia Hominin, Birds
Quanbun Pliocene/Miocene Oceania Australia: Western Australia
Riversleigh Oligocene/Miocene Oceania Australia: Queensland [Note 1]
Talbragar fossil site Jurassic Oceania Australia: New South Wales (central west) Plants and fishes
Tangahoe Formation Late Pliocene Oceania New Zealand: Taranaki
Waipara Greensand Paleogene Oceania New Zealand: Canterbury sharks, some proto-penguins
Wianamatta Shale and Ashfield Shale Late Triassic Oceania Australia: New South Wales (Sydney) Prehistoric amphibians (Capitosauridae, Trematosaurinae), ray finned fish (Semionotiformes and Palaeoniscidae), cartilaginous fish (Xenacanthida) and insects (Protorthoptera)[5]
Great Otway National Park Cretaceous Oceania Australia: Victoria
Otway Basin
  • Dutton Way – Early Pliocene
  • Arch site – Middle Miocene
  • Clifton Banks – Middle to late Miocene
  • Forsyth's Banks and Fossil rock stack – Early Pliocene
  • Spring Creek – Late Miocene to Early Pliocene
  • Kawarren – Late Oligocene
  • Leigh River – Early Miocene
  • Hopkins River – Middle to Late Miocene
  • Gibson's Steps – Bairnsdalian (Middle Miocene)
  • Curdie – Balcombian (Middle Miocene)
  • Princetown Beach – Late Oligocene
  • Castle Cove – Late Oligocene
 Late Oligocene – Early Pliocene Oceania Australia: Victoria
Tinguiririca Abanico Formation Oligocene (Rupelian) South America Chile Mammals (defines one interval of the South American land mammal age (SALMA))
Acre Conglomerate Miocene (Huayquerian) South America Brazil
Agua de la Zorra Triassic South America Argentina Petrified forest of Charles Darwin
Allen Formation Cretaceous (Campanian – Maastrichtian) South America Argentina dinosaurs (including eggs), pterosaurs, and mammals
Anacleto Formation Cretaceous (Campanian) South America Argentina Dinosaurs (eggs), mammals, bird footprints
Andalhualá Formation Miocene/Pliocene South America Argentina
Bajo de la Carpa Formation Cretaceous (Santonian) South America Argentina
Bahía Inglesa Formation Middle Miocene-Late Pliocene South America Chile
Bauru Basin Bauru Group Cretaceous South America Brazil Dinosaurs
Camacho Formation Miocene South America Uruguay Diversity of terrestrial mammals and marine invertebrates
Candeleros Hill, Neuquén Province[Note 2] Candeleros Formation Cretaceous (Cenomanian) South America Argentina
Capadare Formation Middle Miocene South America Venezuela
Paleorrota Caturrita Formation Triassic (Carnian – Norian) South America Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul
Cerrejón Cerrejón Formation Middle-Late Paleocene South America Colombia
Cerro Ballena Plio–Pleistocene South America Chile Cetaceans
Cerro Bandera Formation Miocene South America Argentina
Chapadmalal Sea Cliff Chapadmalalan Pliocene South America Argentina Mammals, terror birds, paleoburrows
Deseado Formation Oligocene South America Argentina
Ensenada Formation Pleistocene South America Argentina
Huincul Formation Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) South America Argentina Dinosaurs, including Argentinosaurus huinculensis and Mapusaurus
Irati Formation Early Permian (Artinskian)[6] South America Brazil Mesosaurs
Ischigualasto Provincial Park Ischigualasto Formation Triassic South America Argentina Tetrapods, early dinosaurs, plants
Ituzaingó Formation Late Miocene (Huayquerian) South America Argentina Mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, bivalves, foraminifera, ichnofossils and flora
Jaguel Formation Late Cretaceous/Early Paleocene (Maastrichtian – Danian) South America Argentina
Cerro Cuadrado Petrified Forest La Matilde Formation Middle to Late Jurassic (Bathonian – Oxfordian) South America Argentina Dinosaurs
Laguna Manantiales Farm La Matilde Formation Middle to Late Jurassic (Bathonian – Oxfordian) South America Argentina Dinosaur tracks
Las Curtiembres Formation Late Cretaceous (Campanian) South America Argentina
Lecho Formation Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) South America Argentina Titanosaur Saltasaurus, avian and non-avian theropods
Lemaire Formation Late Jurassic South America Argentina
Leticia Formation Eocene (Bartonian) South America Argentina
Cerro Lisandro, Neuquén province [Note 2] Lisandro Formation (= Cerro Lisandro Fm.) Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian – Turonian) South America Argentina
Lohan Cura Formation Early Cretaceous (Aptian – Albian) South America Argentina Mesosaurs; Oldest known amniote embryos
Mangrullo Formation Early Permian (Artinskian)[6] South America Uruguay [Note 1]
Mylodon Cave Pleistocene South America Chile
Olmedo Formation Paleocene South America Argentina [citation needed]
Quiriquina Formation Cretaceous South America Chile
Paja Formation Cretaceous South America Colombia
Licán Ray Panguipulli Formation Triassic South America Chile Plants
Punta Peters (5 km east of Panguipulli) Panguipulli Formation Triassic South America Chile Plants
Patagonia Molasses Miocene South America Argentina
Pilauco Bajo[7] Late Pleistocene South America Chile Megafauna, human activity
Pinturas Formation Miocene (Burdigalian – Langhian)[verification needed] South America Argentina
Pisco Formation Late[verification needed] Miocene/Early Pliocene South America Peru
Plottier Formation Late Cretaceous (Coniacian – ?Santonian) South America Argentina Dinosaurs, Trace fossils
Portezuelo Formation Late Cretaceous (Turonian – Coniacian) South America Argentina Dinosaurs, turtles, and other animals
Puerto Madryn Formation Late Miocene South America Argentina
Punta Cactus Formation Eocene South America Argentina [citation needed]
Auca Mahuevo Río Colorado Subgroup Cretaceous South America Argentina Dinosaurs [Note 1]
Roca Formation Paleocene South America Argentina Marine invertebrates
San Julián Formation Eocene/Oligocene South America Argentina
Santa Cruz Formation Miocene South America Argentina
Santana Group (Crato Formation) Aptian-Albian South America Brazil Insects, Fish, Pterosaurs [Note 1]
Paleorrota Santa Maria Formation Middle–Late Triassic (Ladinian-Carnian) South America Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul Early dinosaurs
Cuesta Santo Domingo Santo Domingo Formation Miocene South America Chile
Sâo José de Itaboraí basin Itaboraí Formation Paleocene (Itaboraian) South America Brazil
Sloggett Formation (= Bahía Sloggett Formation) Late Eocene/Early Oligocene South America Argentina [citation needed]
Solimões Formation Late Miocene/Early Pliocene[verification needed] South America Brazil
Toca da Boa Vista Cave Pleistocene South America Brazil
Touro Passo Formation Late Pleistocene–Holocene South America Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul
Tralcán Tralcán Formation Triassic South America Chile
Tunal Formation Paleocene South America Argentina [citation needed]
Urumaco Urumaco Formation Miocene South America Venezuela
La Venta Honda Group Middle Miocene South America Colombia [Note 1]
Yacoraite Formation Late Cretaceous/Early Paleocene (Maastrichtian – Danian) South America Argentina Dinosaur tracks; Stromatolites
Yahgan Formation Early Cretaceous South America Argentina
White Springs Local Fauna Parachucla Formation late Oligocene North America United States: Florida nearshore marine and terrestrial vertebrates
Pindaï Peninsula Népoui Formation Late Miocene Oceania New Caledonia Fossil flora[8]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj This site and/or formation is considered a Lagerstätte.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t This site is an example or type locality for an extensive fossil-bearing formation.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h This site occurs within a widespread fossil bearing formation, but is noteworthy for additional reasons not typical of that formation.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Bryn, Brandon. "Science: Oldest Fossil of Homo Genus Found in Ethiopia". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  2. ^ Fiorillo, Anthony; Hasiotis, Stephen; Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu (August 2014). "Herd structure in Late Cretaceous polar dinosaurs: A remarkable new dinosaur tracksite, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA". Geology. 42 (8): 719–722. Bibcode:2014Geo....42..719F. doi:10.1130/G35740.1.
  3. ^ "10 milyon yıllık hayvan fosilleri bulundu" [10 million years old fossils of animals found] (in Turkish). NTV MSNBC. 2009-10-07. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  4. ^ "New Fossil Site in China Shows Long Recovery of Life from the Largest Extinction in Earth's History". ScienceDaily. 22 Dec 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  5. ^ Cosgriff, J. W. (1973). "Notobrachyops picketti, a brachyopid from the Ashfield Shale, Wiannamatta Group, New South Wales". Journal of Paleontology. 47 (6): 1094–1101. JSTOR 1303172.
  6. ^ a b Piñeiro, G.; Ramos, A.; Goso, C. S.; Scarabino, F.; Laurin, M. (2012). "Unusual Environmental Conditions Preserve a Permian Mesosaur-Bearing Konservat-Lagerstätte from Uruguay". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 57 (2): 299. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0113.
  7. ^ Pino, Mario; Chávez-Hoffmeister, Martín; Navarro-Harris, Ximena; Labarca, Rafael (2013), "The late Pleistocene Pilauco site, Osorno, south-central Chile", Quaternary International, 299: 3–12, Bibcode:2013QuInt.299....3P, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.05.001, hdl:10533/131324
  8. ^ Garrouste, Romain; Munzinger, Jérôme; Leslie, Andrew; Fisher, Jessica; Folcher, Nicolas; Locatelli, Emma; Foy, Wyndy; Chaillon, Thibault; Cantrill, David J.; Maurizot, Pierre; Cluzel, Dominique; Lowry, Porter P.; Crane, Peter; Bahain, Jean-Jacques; Voinchet, Pierre (2021-09-15). "New fossil discoveries illustrate the diversity of past terrestrial ecosystems in New Caledonia". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 18388. Bibcode:2021NatSR..1118388G. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-97938-5. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8443626. PMID 34526644.

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