Festningen Sandstone
Festningen Sandstone Stratigraphic range: Barremian ~ | |
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Type | Member |
Unit of | |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone |
Location | |
Coordinates | 78°06′N 14°00′E / 78.1°N 14.0°ECoordinates: 78°06′N 14°00′E / 78.1°N 14.0°E |
Approximate paleocoordinates | 69°24′N 17°30′E / 69.4°N 17.5°E |
Region | Svalbard |
Country | Norway |
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 stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks
- Ornithopod tracks
- List of stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks
- 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[]
- The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN 0-520-24209-2 ; , and . 2004.
- ISBN 0-231-10710-2 , and . 2000. Dinosaur Tracks and other fossil footprints of Europe, _. Columbia University Press, New York.
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
Categories:
- Geologic formations of Norway
- Geology of Svalbard
- Lower Cretaceous Series of Europe
- Cretaceous Norway
- Barremian Stage
- Sandstone formations
- Ichnofossiliferous formations
- Paleontology in Norway