title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta
text: # List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta
  
  This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta, Canada.
  
  | Group or formation | Period | Stage | Dominant lithology | Depositional environment |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Alberta Group/Waipiabi Formation | Late Cretaceous | Cenomanian to Santonian | shale | marine |
  | Alexo Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian to Famennian | dolomitic limestone | marine |
  | Bad Heart Formation | Late Cretaceous | Turonian | shale | marine |
  | Banff Formation | Mississippian | Tournasian | limestone | marine |
  | Battle Formation (Edmonton Group) | Late Cretaceous | Maastrichtian | mudstone | nonmarine |
  | Bearpaw Formation (Edmonton Group) | Late Cretaceous Campanian | Campanian | shale | marine |
  | Beaverfoot Formation | Ordovician to Silurian | Ashgillian to Llandoverian | dolomite | marine |
  | Beaverhill Lake Group | Devonian | late Givetian to early Frasnian | limestone | marine |
  | Beaverhill Lake Group/Slave Point Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | limestone | marine |
  | Beaverhill Lake Group/Waterways Formation | Middle Devonian to Late Devonian | late Givetian to Frasnian | limestone, calcareous shale | marine |
  | Belcourt Formation | Early Permian | Asselian to Sakmarian | dolomite, limestone | marine |
  | Belle Fourche Formation (Colorado Group) | Cretaceous | Cenomanian | shale | marine |
  | Belloy Formation | Permian | Artinskian to Roadian | dolomite, sandstone | marine |
  | Belly River Formation (Judith River Formation) | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Belly River Group/Allison Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Belly River Group/Dinosaur Park Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Belly River Group/Foremost Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Belly River Group/Oldman Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Bison Creek Formation | Late Cambrian | | shale | marine |
  | Blackstone Formation | Late Cretaceous | Cenomanian to Turonian | shale | marine |
  | Blairmore Group/Luscar Group | Early Cretaceous | Aptian to Albian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Blood Reserve Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | sandstone | nonmarine |
  | Brazeau Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian to Maastrichtian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Burgess Shale Formation (Stephen Formation) | Middle Cambrian | | shale | marine |
  | Cadomin Formation | Early Cretaceous | Barremian to Aptian | conglomerate, sandstone | nonmarine |
  | Cairn Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | calcareous dolomite | marine |
  | Cardium Formation (Colorado Group) | Late Cretaceous | Turonian to Coniacian | sandstone, siltstone | marine |
  | Clearwater Formation (Mannville Group) | Early Cretaceous | Albian | shale | marine |
  | Coalspur Formation | Late Cretaceous to Paleocene | Maastrichtian to Danian | sandstone, siltstone, coal | nonmarine |
  | Colorado Group/Belle Fourche Formation | Cretaceous | Cenomanian | shale | marine |
  | Colorado Group/Cardium Formation | Late Cretaceous | Turonian to Coniacian | sandstone, siltstone | marine |
  | Colorado Group/Second White Speckled Shale | Late Cretaceous | Cenomanian to Turonian | shale | marine |
  | Colorado Group/Westgate Formation | Late Cretaceous | Turonian | shale | marine |
  | Cooking Lake Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | limestone | marine |
  | Deadwood Formation | Middle to Late Cambrian | | sandstone | marine |
  | Dessa Dawn Formation (obsolete) | Mississippian | | limestone | marine |
  | Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group) (Judith River Group) | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Dunvegan Formation | Late Cretaceous | Cenomanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Duvernay Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | bituminous limestone, argillaceous limestone | marine |
  | Edmonton Group | Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene | Campanian to Danian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Edmonton Group/Battle Formation | Late Cretaceous | Maastrichtian | mudstone | nonmarine |
  | Edmonton Group/Horseshoe Canyon Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian to early Maastrichtian | sandstone, siltstone, coal | nonmarine |
  | Edmonton Group/Scollard Formation | Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene | Maastrichtian to Danian | sandstone, siltstone, coal | nonmarine |
  | Edmonton Group/Whitemud Formation | Late Cretaceous | Maastrichtian | sandstone, siltstone, claystone | nonmarine |
  | Etherington Formation | Mississippian | Serpukhovian | dolomitic limestone | marine |
  | Exshaw Formation | Late Devonian to Early Mississippian | late Famennian to middle Tournasian | shale | marine |
  | Fairholme Group | Late Devonian | Frasnian | dolomite | marine |
  | Fairholme Group/Mount Hawk Formation | Devonian | Frasnian | dolomite | marine |
  | Fernie Formation | Jurassic | Hettangian to middle Tithonian | shale, siltstone | marine |
  | Flume Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | dolomite | marine |
  | Foremost Formation (Belly River Group) | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Fort St. John Group | Cretaceous | Albian to Cenomanian | sandstone, siltstone, shale | nonmarine and marine |
  | Fort St. John Group/Shaftesbury Formation | Cretaceous | Albian to Cenomanian | shale | marine |
  | Gates Formation | Early Cretaceous | Albian | sandstone, siltstone, coal | nonmarine |
  | Ghost River Formation (obsolete) | Cambrian to Middle Devonian | | | |
  | Gog Group | Early Cambrian | | quartzose sandstone, conglomerate | |
  | Grand Rapids Formation (Mannville Group) | Early Cretaceous | Albian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Hasler Formation | Early Cretaceous | Albian | shale | marine |
  | Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Edmonton Group) | Late Cretaceous | Campanian to early Maastrichtian | sandstone, siltstone, coal | nonmarine |
  | Ireton Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | shale | marine |
  | Judith River Formation (Belly River Formation) | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Judith River Group/Dinosaur Park Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Kananaskis Formation | Late Carboniferous | Late Pennsylvanian | limestone, dolomite, chert | marine |
  | Kaskapau Formation | Late Cretaceous | Cenomanian to Turonian | shale | marine |
  | Lea Park Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | shale | marine |
  | Leduc Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | dolomite | marine |
  | Livingstone Formation (Rundle Group) | Mississippian | Tournasian to Visean | dolomitic limestone | marine |
  | Loon River Formation (obsolete) | Early Cretaceous | Albian | shale | marine |
  | Lyell Formation | Late Cambrian | Dresbachian | limestone, dolomite | marine |
  | Mannville Group | Early Cretaceous | Barremian to Albian | sandstone, siltstone, shale | nonmarine and marine |
  | Mannville Group/Clearwater Formation | Early Cretaceous | Albian | shale | marine |
  | Mannville Group/Grand Rapids Formation | Early Cretaceous | Albian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Mannville Group/McMurray Formation | Early Cretaceous | late Barremian to Aptian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine, marginal marine |
  | McMurray Formation (Mannville Group) | Early Cretaceous | late Barremian to Aptian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine, marginal marine |
  | Mikkwa Formation | Middle Devonian | Givetian | dolomitic limestone | marine |
  | Milk River Formation | Late Cretaceous | Santonian to Campanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Mistaya Formation | Late Cambrian | | limestone | marine |
  | Montney Formation | Early Triassic | Olenekian | siltstone, shale | marine |
  | Mount Hawk Formation (Fairholme Group) | Late Devonian | Frasnian to Famennian | dolomite, limestone | marine |
  | Mount Head Formation (Rundle Group) | Mississippian | Visean | dolomitic limestone | marine |
  | Mowitch Formation | Permian | Guadalupian | sandstone, calcareous sandstone | marine |
  | Mural Formation | Early Cambrian | | limestone, dolomite | marine |
  | Nikanassin Formation | Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous | Portlandian to Barremian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Nisku Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | dolomite | marine |
  | Nordegg Formation (Fernie Group) | Jurassic | | limestone | marine |
  | Norquay Formation (obsolete) | Permian | | | |
  | Oldman Formation (Belly River Group) | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Outram Formation | Early Ordovician | | limestone, shale | marine |
  | Pakowki Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | shale, siltstone | marine |
  | Palliser Formation | Late Devonian | Famennian | limestone | marine |
  | Paskapoo Formation | late Paleocene | Thanetian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Peace River Formation | Early Cretaceous | Albian | sandstone, siltstone, shale | marine and nonmarine |
  | Peechee Formation | late Devonian | Frasnian | dolomite, calcareous dolomite | marine |
  | Perdrix Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | calcareous shale | marine |
  | Porcupine Hills Formation | late Paleocene | Danian | sandstone, siltstone, shale | nonmarine |
  | Puskwaskau Formation | Late Cretaceous | Santonian to Campanian | shale | marine |
  | Ranger Canyon Formation | Permian | Guadalupian to Lopingian | sandstone, dolomite | marine |
  | Rocky Mountain Group | Permian | | dolomite, sandstone | marine |
  | Rundle Group/Etherington Formation | Mississippian | Serpukhovian | dolomitic limestone | marine |
  | Rundle Group/Livingstone Formation | Mississippian | Tournasian to Visean | dolomitic limestone | marine |
  | Rundle Group/Mount Head Formation | Mississippian | Visean | dolomitic limestone | marine |
  | Rundle Group/Tunnel Mountain Formation | Mississippian | | sandstone, dolomitic sandstone | marine |
  | Scollard Formation (Edmonton Group) | Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene | Maastrichtian to Danian | sandstone, siltstone, coal | nonmarine |
  | Second White Speckled Shale (Colorado Group) | Late Cretaceous | Cenomanian to Turonian | shale | marine |
  | Shaftesbury Formation | Cretaceous | Albian to Cenomanian | shale | marine |
  | Simla Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | siltstone, dolomitic limestone | marine |
  | Skoki Formation | Middle Ordovician | | dolomite | marine |
  | Slave Point Formation (Beaverhill Lake Group) | Middle Devonian | Givetian | limestone | marine |
  | Smoky Group/Bad Heart Formation | Late Cretaceous | Turonian | shale | marine |
  | Smoky Group/Kaskapau Formation | Late Cretaceous | Cenomanian to Turonian | shale | marine |
  | Southesk Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | dolomite | marine |
  | Spray River Formation | Triassic | | siltstone, shale, dolomite | marine and nonmarine |
  | St. Mary River Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian to Maastrichtian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Stephen Formation | Middle Cambrian | | shale | marine |
  | Sulphur Mountain Formation | Triassic | | siltstone, dolomite, shale | marine |
  | Survey Peak Formation | Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician | | calcareous shale, limestone | marine |
  | Swan Hills Formation | Middle Devonian | late Givetian | limestone | marine |
  | Tunnel Mountain Formation (Rundle Group) | Mississippian | | sandstone, dolomitic sandstone | marine |
  | Two Medicine Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian | claystone, sandstone | nonmarine |
  | Wabamun Formation | Late Devonian | Famennian | limestone, dolomite | marine |
  | Wapiabi Formation | Late Cretaceous | Coniacian to Campanian | shale, siltstone | marine |
  | Wapiti Formation | Late Cretaceous | Campanian to Maastrichtian | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Waterways Formation (Beaverhill Lake Group) | Middle Devonian to Late Devonian | late Givetian to Frasnian | limestone, calcareous shale | marine |
  | Westgate Formation (Colorado Group) | Late Cretaceous | Turonian | shale | marine |
  | Whitemud Formation (Edmonton Group) | Late Cretaceous | Maastrichtian | sandstone, claystone | nonmarine |
  | Willow Creek Formation | Late Cretaceous | Maastrichtian to Paleocene | sandstone, siltstone | nonmarine |
  | Woodbend Group/Duvernay Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | bituminous limestone, argillaceous limestone | marine |
  | Woodbend Group/Leduc Formation | Late Devonian | Frasnian | dolomite | marine |
  | Yahatinda Formation | Middle Devonian | Givetian | dolomitic sandstone, conglomerate, mudstone | nonmarine and marine |
  