Festningen Sandstone
Festningen Sandstone | |
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Stratigraphic range: Barremian ~125–120 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
Type | Member |
Unit of | Helvetiafjellet Formation |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone |
Location | |
Coordinates | ![]() ![]() Festningen Sandstone (Svalbard) |
The Festningen Sandstone is an Early Cretaceous (Barremian) geologic formation in Svalbard, in the far north of Norway. Fossil ornithopod tracks have been reported from the formation.[1][2][3][4]
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Norway
- Lunde Formation
- Camarillas Formation
- South Polar region of the Cretaceous
References
- ^ Weishampel et al., 2004, pp. 517-607
- ^ Dinosaur tracks
- ^ Festningen Sandstone at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Lockley & Meyer, 2000, pp.220-222
Bibliography
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21
- Lockley, Martin G.; Meyer, C.A. (2000), Dinosaur Tracks and other fossil footprints of Europe, Columbia University Press, New York, ISBN 0-231-10710-2
Further reading
- J. H. Hurum, J. Milàn, Hammer Midtkandal, H. Amundsen, and B. Sæther. 2006. Tracking polar dinosaurs—new finds from the Lower Cretaceous of Svalbard. Norwegian Journal of Geology 86:397-402
- A. F. d. Lapparent. 1960. Découverte de traces de pas de Dinosauriens dans le Crétacé du Spitzberg [Discovery of dinosaur footprints in the Cretaceous of Siptzbergen]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 251:1399-1400