List of fossil sites
List of sites

List of fossil sites

Section Title: 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 Coopers Cave Gladysvale Cave Kromdraai Malapa Motsetsi Plovers Lake Sterkfontein Swartkrans and others	Pliocene – Pleistocene	Africa	South Africa	Hominin

Karoo Supergroup: Elliot Formation	Triassic – Jurassic	Africa	South Africa	Dinosaurs

Karoo Supergroup: Bahariya Formation	Late Cretaceous	Africa	Egypt	Dinosaurs

Karoo Supergroup: Clarens Formation	Early Jurassic	Africa	South Africa	Dinosaurs, Dinosaur eggs, Bony fish

Karoo Supergroup: Molteno Formation	Late Triassic	Africa	South Africa

Elrhaz Formation	Early Cretaceous	Africa	Niger	Dinosaurs

Hadar Formation	Pliocene	Africa	Ethiopia

Bouri Formation	Pleistocene	Africa	Ethiopia	Hominin

Hoedjiespunt	Pleistocene	Africa	South Africa	Hominin

Hoffmeyr	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

Lothagam	Miocene – Pliocene	Africa	Kenya	Hominin and other mammals

Maevarano Formation	Late Cretaceous	Africa	Madagascar	Dinosaurs (Non-Avian), Crocodylomorphs

Kem Kem Beds	Late Cretaceous	Africa	Morocco	Non-Avian Dinosaurs, Crocodylomorphs, etc.

Mistaken Point	Mistaken Point Formation	Ediacaran	North America	Canada	Ediacara biota (early multicellular life)

Olduvai Gorge	Pliocene	Africa	Tanzania	Hominin

Omo Kibish Formation (= Kibish Formation)	Pliocene – Pleistocene	Africa	Ethiopia	Hominin: australopithecine remains and stone tools

Orapa	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

Tegana Formation	Early Cretaceous	Africa	Morocco	Non-Avian Dinosaurs

Tendaguru Formation	Late Jurassic	Africa	Tanzania	Non-Avian Dinosaurs, etc.

Usno Formation	Pliocene – Early Pleistocene	Africa	Ethiopia

West Coast Fossil Park	Terminal Miocene/Early Pliocene	Africa	South Africa

Yengema cave	Neolithic	Africa	Sierra Leone	Hominin tools

Seymour Island	Cross Valley Formation	Late Paleocene	Antarctica

Seymour Island	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	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

Hanson Formation	Early Jurassic	Antarctica	Dinosaurs, prosauropods, trees

Prebble Formation	Middle Jurassic	Antarctica

James Ross Island	Santa Marta Formation Snow Hill Island Formation	Late Cretaceous	Antarctica	Dinosaurs

Falla Formation	Triassic	Antarctica

Fremouw Formation	Triassic	Antarctica

Cumulus Hills	Thrinaxodon Col	Triassic	Antarctica

Ashfall Fossil Beds	Ash Hollow Formation (Ogallala Group)	Miocene (Clarendonian)	North America	USA: Nebraska	Mammals

Astoria Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: Oregon

Page-Ladson (Aucilla River)	Pleistocene/Holocene	North America	USA: Florida	Hominin, human/mastodon coexistence

Austin Chalk	Late Cretaceous	North America	USA: Texas

Aztec Sandstone	Early Jurassic	North America	USA: Nevada, California	Dinosaurs

Bainbridge Formation	Silurian	North America	USA: Missouri

Bakken Formation	Late Devonian – Early Carboniferous (Early Mississippian)	North America	USA: Montana, North Dakota and Canada: Saskatchewan

Cleveland's Glen, Oneida County, New York	Beecher's Trilobite Bed	Ordovician	North America	USA: New York	Trilobites

Bighill Creek Formation	Late Pleistocene	North America	Canada

Big Sandy Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: Arizona

Mount Blanco	Blanco Formation	Pliocene/Pleistocene	North America	USA: Kansas, Texas	Blancan fauna

Blue Beach	Tournaisian	North America	Canada: Nova Scotia

Bobcaygeon Formation	Ordovician	North America	Canada: Ontario

Bone Cabin Quarry	Jurassic	North America	USA: Wyoming	Non-Avian Dinosaurs

Bone Valley Formation	Miocene-Pliocene	North America	USA: Florida

Breathitt Group	Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous)	North America	USA: Kentucky

Bridger Formation	Eocene	North America	USA: Wyoming

Bromide Formation	Ordovician (Sandbian)	North America	USA: Oklahoma	Trilobites, Echinoderms

Fitterer Ranch Obritsch Ranch Little Badlands in Stark County Badlands National Park	Brule Formation	Oligocene	North America	USA: South Dakota	Mammals, sunfish, cat fish

Kootenay National Park	Burgess Shale	Cambrian (Albertan)	North America	Canada: British Columbia

Calvert Cliffs State Park	Calvert Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: Maryland	Middle Miocene Climate Transition and Middle Miocene disruption

Cannonball Formation	Paleocene	North America	USA: North Dakota

Cañón del Tule Formation	Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	North America	Mexico

Cedar Mountain Formation	Cretaceous	North America	USA: Colorado and Utah	Non-Avian Dinosaurs, Amphibians, Fish, Mammals, other reptiles

Cerro del Pueblo Formation	Cretaceous (Campanian)	North America	Mexico	Dinosaurs, etc.

Cerro Grande Formation	Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	North America	Mexico

Cerro Huerta Formation	Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian)	North America	Mexico

Chandler Bridge Formation	Late Oligocene (Chattian)	North America	USA: South Carolina

Goodsell Ridge, Isle La Motte (Lake Champlain)	Chazy Formation	Ordovician	North America	USA: Vermont	Early Reef: bryozoa, corals, stromatoporoids

Chuckanut Formation	Eocene	North America	USA: Washington State	Fossil trackways from birds, mammals and turtles

Cincinnatian Group	Late Ordovician	North America	USA: Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky

Clarita Formation	Silurian	North America	USA: Oklahoma

Clinton Group Keefer Formation Rose Hill Formation	Silurian	North America	USA: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia

Como Bluff	Cloverly Formation	Early Cretaceous	North America	USA: Montana, Wyoming	Non-Avian Dinosaurs, some mammals, turtles, crocodilians, and fish

Cobourg Formation	Ordovician	North America	Canada: Ontario

Coon Creek Formation	Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	North America	USA: Tennessee and Mississippi	Marine reptiles, particularly mosasaurs and plesiosaurs Invertebrates: Turritella (sea snails), bryozoans, clams, crabs, shrimp and some sharks

Cooper Formation	Late Oligocene (Chattian)	North America	USA: South Carolina

Dakota Formation	Late Cretaceous	North America	USA: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin	Some Non-Avian Dinosaurs and Dinosaur tracks

Decorah Shale (Galena Group)	Ordovician	North America	USA: Minnesota and Upper Midwest[ambiguous]	Trilobites, brachiopods, horn corals, gastropods, crinoids, and bryozoans

Delorme Formation	Silurian-Devonian	North America	Canada: Yukon

Demopolis Chalk Formation	Cretaceous	North America	USA: Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee

Denali National Park and Preserve	Cantwell Formation	Late Cretaceous	North America	USA:Alaska	Non-Avian Dinosaur tracks, plants, insects

Dinosaur Provincial Park	Dinosaur Park Formation	Cretaceous (Campanian)	North America	Canada: Alberta	Non- Avian Dinosaurs

Dinosaur State Park	Jurassic	North America	USA: 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	Marshalltown Formation	Cretaceous (Campanian)	North America	USA: New Jersey

Eutaw Formation	Cretaceous	North America	USA: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi	Dinosaur, mosasaur, and pterosaur

Falls of the Ohio	Jefferson Limestone	Devonian	North America	USA: Indiana	Corals (Tabulate coral and Rugosa

Florissant Fossil Beds	Florissant Formation	Eocene (Priabonian)	North America	USA: Colorado

Fossil Prairie Park	Devonian	North America	USA: Iowa

Mazon Creek	Francis Creek Shale	Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)	North America	USA: Illinois

Ghost Ranch	Triassic	North America	USA: New Mexico	Non-Avian Dinosaurs

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument	Glenns Ferry Formation	Pliocene/Pleistocene	North America	USA: Idaho	Hagerman horse ('American Zebra'), Camelops

Dinosaur Valley State Park	Glen Rose Formation	Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian)	North America	USA: Texas

Gower Formation	Silurian	North America	USA: Iowa

Gray Fossil Site	Miocene	North America	USA: Tennessee	Mammals

Green River Formation	Eocene	North America	USA: Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming

Fossil Butte National Monument	Green River Formation	Eocene	North America	USA: Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming	Fishes

Gunflint Chert	Late Archaean – Early Proterozoic	North America	Canada: western Ontario & USA: Minnesota (Gunflint Range)	Stromatolite colonies of cyanobacteria

Hawthorne Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: South Carolina[verification needed] to Florida

Hell Creek Formation	Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	North America	USA: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming

Hilda mega-bonebed	Dinosaur Park Formation	Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	North America	Canada: Alberta	Dinosaurs

Hornerstown Formation	Cretaceous/Paleocene	North America	USA: New Jersey

Huerfano Formation	Eocene	North America	USA: Colorado

Hungry Hollow Formation	Devonian	North America	Canada: Ontario

Joggins Fossil Cliffs	Carboniferous	North America	Canada: Nova Scotia

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument	John Day Formation	Oligocene - Miocene	North America	USA: Oregon	Mammals: dogs, cats, oreodonts, saber-toothed cats, horses, camels, and rodents

Clarno Unit, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument	Clarno Formation	Eocene	North America	USA: Oregon	Plants: tropical and subtropical nuts, fruits, roots, branches, and seeds

Judith River Formation	Cretaceous (Campanian)	North America	USA: Montana

Kanawha Formation	Pennsylvanian	North America	USA: West Virginia

Zion National Park Capitol Reef National Park the San Rafael Swell Canyonlands National Park	Kayenta Formation (Glen Canyon Group)	Jurassic	North America	USA: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah	Non- Avian Dinosaurs and other vertebrates

Keasey Formation	Late Eocene/Early Oligocene[verification needed]	North America	USA: Oregon

Klondike Mountain near Republic, Washington	Klondike Mountain Formation	Eocene (Ypresian)	North America	USA: Washington	Plants and Insects

Krukowski Quarry	Cambrian	North America	USA: Wisconsin

La Brea Tar Pits	Pleistocene (Rancholabrean)	North America	USA: California

Lance Formation (= Lance Creek Fm.)	Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	North America	USA: North Dakota and Wyoming

Las Encinas Formation	Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	North America	Mexico

Las Imágenes Formation	Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	North America	Mexico

Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site	Cretaceous	North America	USA: New Jersey	Dinosaurs: Hadrosaurus

Lennep Formation	Cretaceous	North America	USA: Montana

Lindsay Formation	Ordovician	North America	Canada: Ontario

Linton Formation	Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)	North America	USA: Ohio

Lockatong Formation	Triassic	North America	USA: New Jersey

Ludlow Formation (= Slope Fm.)	Paleocene: Tiffanian	North America	USA: North Dakota[verification needed]

The Mammoth Site	Pleistocene: Rancholabrean	North America	USA: South Dakota

Manchester Quarry	Triassic	North America	USA: Connecticut

Manuels River	Cambrian	North America	Canada: Newfoundland	Trilobites

Mascall Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: Oregon

Mattoon Formation	Pennsylvanian	North America	USA: Illinois

McAbee Fossil Beds	Eocene	North America	Canada: British Columbia

McKenzie Formation	Silurian	North America	USA: West Virginia

Medina Formation	Silurian	North America	USA: New York and Canada: Ontario

Melbourne Bone Bed	Pleistocene	North America	USA: Florida	Megafauna, Hominin (the "Melbourne Man")

Miguasha National Park	Devonian (Famennian)	North America	Canada: Québec

Mooreville Chalk Formation	Cretaceous	North America	USA: Alabama and Mississippi

Monterey Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: California

Como Bluff	Morrison Formation	Late Jurassic	North America	Canada/United States (Great Plains)

Naco Formation	Pennsylvanian, Desmoinesian	North America	USA: Arizona

Nanjemoy Formation	Eocene	North America	USA: Virginia

Navesink Formation	Cretaceous	North America	USA: New Jersey	Non Avian Dinosaurs and shell beds

Niobrara Formation Smoky Hill Chalk	Cretaceous	North America	USA: Kansas, Nebraska	Marine reptiles

Nye Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: Oregon

Edson Quarry	Ogallala Formation	Miocene/Pliocene	North America	USA: Kansas

Lake Meredith National Recreation Area Alibates Flint Quarry National Monument	Ogallala Formation	Miocene/Pliocene	North America	USA: Texas

Oldman Formation	Cretaceous (Campanian)	North America	Canada: Alberta	Non- Avian Dinosaurs

Champlain Bridge (Ottawa), Quebec side	Pamelia Formation	Late Ordovician	North America	Canada: Quebec, Gatineau, Aylmer

Pikeville Formation	Pennsylvanian	North America	USA: Kentucky

Pipe Creek Sinkhole	Pliocene	North America	USA: Indiana

Pittsburg Bluff Formation	Late Eocene/Early Oligocene[verification needed]	North America	USA: Oregon

Minehaha Falls State Park	Platteville Limestone	Ordovician	North America	USA: Minnesota

Minneapolis–Saint Paul (Mississippi River bluffs)	Platteville Limestone	Ordovician	North America	USA: Minnesota

Pocahontas Formation	Pennsylvanian	North America	USA: West Virginia, Virginia

Burgoon Run in Blair County, Pennsylvania	Pocono Formation	Carboniferous (Mississippian)	North America	USA: Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia

Price West Formation	Early Mississippian	North America	USA: West Virginia

Puget Group	Late Eocene	North America	USA: Washington

Lee Creek Mine	Pungo River Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: North Carolina

Purgatoire River track site	Late Jurassic	North America	USA: Colorado	Dinosaurs: Footprints

Quarry Mountain Formation	Silurian	North America	USA: Oklahoma

Rancho Nuevo Formation	Cretaceous – Paleocene (Maastrichtian-Danian)	North America	Mexico

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument	Rattlesnake Formation	Miocene (Tortonian-Messinian)	North America	USA: Oregon

Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite	Sundance Formation	Middle Jurassic	North America	USA: Wyoming	Dinosaurs: Footprints

Rexroad Formation	Pliocene	North America	USA: Kansas

Rincón Colorado	Cretaceous	North America	Mexico: Coahuila

Ripley Formation	Cretaceous	North America	USA: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee

Rosebud Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: South Dakota

Round Mountain Silt	Middle Miocene (Barstovian)	North America	USA: California

Walcott-Rust quarry	Rust Formation	Late Ordovician	North America	USA: New York

San Diego Formation	Middle-Late Pliocene[verification needed]	North America	USA: California

Schoonmaker Reef and Soldiers' Home Reef	Silurian	North America	USA: Wisconsin	Reefs (the first discovered in North America)

Sentinel Butte Formation	Paleocene[verification needed]	North America	USA: North Dakota [verification needed]

Sheep Creek Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: Nebraska

St. Clair Limestone	Silurian	North America	USA: Arkansas

St. Peter Sandstone	Ordovician	North America	USA: Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska, South Dakota

Syracuse Formation	Silurian	North America	USA: New York

Como Bluff	Sundance Formation	Late Jurassic	North America	USA: Wyoming

Path 15 bone bed, San Joaquin Valley	Temblor Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: California

Tepetate Formation	Cretaceous – Middle Eocene	North America	Mexico

Wichita Falls	Texas Red Beds	Permian	North America	USA: Texas	Tetrapods

Thomas Farm Site	Miocene	North America	USA: Florida

Wannagan Creek site, Theodore Roosevelt National Park	Tongue River Formation (= Bullion Creek Fm.)	Paleocene: Tiffanian	North America	USA: North Dakota	Mammals, reptiles, birds

Traverse Group (Petoskey)	Devonian	North America	USA: Michigan

Trenton Group	Ordovician	North America	Canada: Quebec

Tuscarora Formation	Silurian	North America	USA: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia

Egg Mountain site	Two Medicine Formation	Cretaceous (Campanian)	North America	USA: Montana	Dinosaurs, particularly eggs and young

Washakie Formation	Eocene	North America	USA: Wyoming

Wheeler Amphitheater in Millard County, Utah	Wheeler Shale	Cambrian	North America	USA: Utah	Trilobites

Whitby Formation	Ordovician	North America	Canada: Ontario

White River Formation	Late Eocene – mid-Oligocene	North America	USA: Colorado

Widder Formation	Devonian	North America	Canada: Ontario

Willwood Formation	Paleocene/Eocene	North America	USA: Wyoming	Trace fossils

Woodbine, Texas Arlington Archosaur Site	Woodbine Formation	Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	North America	USA: Texas	Dinosaurs and crocodilians

Woodbury Formation	Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	North America	USA: Haddonfield, New Jersey

Ziegler Reservoir fossil site ('Snowmastodon Site')	Pleistocene (Illinoian (stage))	North America	USA: Colorado	Mastodon and other ice age vertebrates

Zion National Park	Navajo Sandstone	Triassic – Jurassic	North America	USA: Utah	?

Zuni Basin	Cretaceous	North America	USA: New Mexico

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument	Arikaree Group Gering Formation Monroe Creek formation Harrison Formation	Miocene	North America	USA: Nebraska

Potomac River	Aquia Formation	Paleocene	North America	USA: Maryland and Virginia

Arkona Shale	Devonian	North America	Canada: Ontario

Balabansai Formation	Late Jurassic	Asia	Kazakhstan	Dinosaurs

Barun Goyot Formation	Late Cretaceous	Asia	Mongolia

Bayan Shireh Formation	Late Cretaceous	Asia	Mongolia

Baynunah Formation	Late Miocene	Asia	United Arab Emirates

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

Dashanpu Formation	Middle Jurassic	Asia	China	Dinosaurs

Dashuigou Formation	Early Cretaceous	Asia	China	Dinosaurs

Flaming Cliffs	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 Alireza, Kerman	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	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	Middle Triassic	Asia	China: Yunnan

Chengjiang County	Maotianshan Shales	Cambrian	Asia	China

Minatogawa Limestone Quarry	Neogene	Asia	Japan	Hominin

Nagura Formation	Middle Miocene	Asia	Japan

Mandla Plant Fossils National Park	Late Jurassic-Paleogene	Asia	India

Maleri Formation	Late Triassic	Asia	India

Minhe Formation	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	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 Formation	Middle Jurassic	Asia	China

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	Jehol Biota, See also: Paleobiota of the Yixian Formation

Yuliangze Formation	Late Cretaceous	Asia	China

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

Ana	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

Bembridge Marls	Oligocene	Europe	England

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

Ceprano	Pleistocene	Europe	Italy	Hominin, Homo cepranensis (single find)

Isernia La Pineta	Pleistocene	Europe	Italy

Baccinello	Miocene	Europe	Italy	Hominin: Oreopithecus bambolii

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

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

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

Hunsrück Slates	Devonian	Europe	Germany: Bundenbach

Jurassic Coast	Jurassic	Europe	England

Kattendijk Sands	Pliocene	Europe	Belgium	Auk (birds)

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

Liedena Sandstone	Late Eocene (Priabonian)	Europe	Spain: Navarra

Lo Hueco	Cretaceous	Europe	Spain

London Clay	Eocene	Europe	England

Löwenstein Formation	Late Triassic	Europe	Germany	Dinosaurs

Lourinhã Formation Amoreira-Porto Novo Members Sobral Unit	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

Monte Bolca	Eocene	Europe	Italy

Murero	Cambrian	Europe	Spain

Neandertal (e.g., Kleine Feldhofer Grotte)	Pleistocene	Europe	Germany	Hominin

Oxford Clay	Jurassic	Europe	England

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

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

Riodeva	Jurassic/Cretaceous	Europe	Spain	Dinosaurs

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 costal fauna.

Solnhofen limestone	Jurassic	Europe	Germany

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

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

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	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)

Emu Bay Shale	Early Cambrian	Oceania	Australia: South Australia (Kangaroo Island)

Etadunna Formation	Oligocene/Miocene	Oceania	Australia: South Australia

Georgina Basin	Neoproterozoic – late Paleozoic	Oceania	Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland

Gogo Formation	Devonian	Oceania	Australia: Western Australia

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

Heathcote siltstone	Early Silurian- Late Devonian	Oceania	Australia: Victoria

Horseshoe Bay Limestone Downs	Cretaceous	Oceania	New Zealand: Waikato

Kangaroo Wells	Miocene	Oceania	Australia: Northern Territory

Knocklofty Formation	Early Triassic	Oceania	Australia: Tasmania

Knowsley East Formation	Middle-late Cambrian	Oceania	Australia: Victoria

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 Formation	Pliocene	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

Talbragar	Jurassic	Oceania	Australia: New South Wales (central west)

Tangahoe Mudstone Formation	Late Pliocene	Oceania	New Zealand

Waipara Formation	Paleogene	Oceania	New Zealand: Canterbury

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)

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

Acre Conglomerate	Miocene (Huayquerian)	South America	Brazil

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

Andalgala 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

Beauvoir Formation	Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous	South America	Argentina

Camacho Formation	Miocene	South America	Uruguay

Candeleros Hill, Neuquén province	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	Pliocene – Pleistocene	South America	Chile	Cetaceans

Cerro Bandera Formation	Miocene	South America	Argentina

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)	South America	Brazil	Mesosaurs

Ischigualasto Formation	Triassic	South America	Argentina

Ituzaingó Formation	Late Miocene (Huayquerian)	South America	Argentina

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	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)	South America	Uruguay

Mylodon Cave	Pleistocene	South America	Chile

Olmedo Formation	Paleocene	South America	Argentina

Quiriquina Formation	Cretaceous	South America	Chile

Paja Formation	Cretaceous	South America	Colombia

Licán Ray	Panguipulli Formation	Triassic	South America	Chile

Punta Peters (5 km east of Panguipulli)	Panguipulli Formation	Triassic	South America	Chile

Patagonia Molasses	Miocene	South America	Argentina

Pilauco Bajo	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

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

Auca Mahuevo	Río Colorado Subgroup	Cretaceous	South America	Argentina

Roca Formation	Paleocene	South America	Argentina

San Julián Formation	Eocene/Oligocene	South America	Argentina

Santa Cruz Formation	Miocene	South America	Argentina

Santana Group (Crato Formation)	Cretaceous	South America	Brazil

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	Paleocene (Itaboraian)	South America	Brazil

Sloggett Formation (= Bahía Sloggett Formation)	Late Eocene/Early Oligocene	South America	Argentina

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

Untermassfeld	Early Pleistocene	Europe	Germany	Hominin (controversial)

Urumaco	Urumaco Formation	Miocene	South America	Venezuela

La Venta	Honda Group	Middle Miocene	South America	Colombia

Waco Mammoth National Monument	Pleistocene	North America	USA:Texas

Yacoraite Formation	Late Cretaceous/Early Paleocene (Maastrichtian – Danian)	South America	Argentina	Dinosaur tracks; Stromatolites

Yahgan Formation	Early Cretaceous	South America	Argentina

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

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The Untermassfeld fossil site is in Germany.

final_sentence: The Untermassfeld fossil site is in Germany.