page_title: Belly River Group
hierarchical_section_title: Belly River Group
caption_attribution_description: Oldman River close to the mouth, seen from Veteran Memorial Highway, Alberta, Canada
context_page_description: The Belly River Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
  It takes the name from the Belly River, a tributary of the Oldman River in southern Alberta, and was first described in outcrop on the banks of the Oldman River and Bow River by George Mercer Dawson in 1883.
context_section_description: The Belly River Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. 
  It takes the name from the Belly River, a tributary of the Oldman River in southern Alberta, and was first described in outcrop on the banks of the Oldman River (at the time considered part of the Belly River) and Bow River by George Mercer Dawson in 1883.
caption: Belly River beds exposed along the Oldman River
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