List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

Group or Formation Period Notes
Alberta Group/Waipiabi Formation Cretaceous
Alexo Formation Devonian
Bad Heart Formation Cretaceous
Banff Formation Carboniferous
Battle Formation Cretaceous
Bearpaw Formation Cretaceous
Beaverfoot Formation Ordovician
Beaverhill Lake Formation Devonian
Beaver Group/Slave Point Formation Devonian
Belcourt Formation Permian
Belloy Formation Permian
Belly River Formation Cretaceous
Belly River Group/Allison Formation Cretaceous
Belly River Group/Dinosaur Park Formation Cretaceous
Belly River Group/Dinosaur Park? Formation Cretaceous
Belly River Group/Foremost Formation Cretaceous
Belly River Group/Oldman Formation Cretaceous
Bison Creek Formation Cambrian
Blackstone Formation Cretaceous
Blairmore Group Cretaceous
Blairmore Group/Luscar? Mountain Park? Formation Cretaceous
Blood Reserve Formation Cretaceous
Blood River Sandstone Formation Cretaceous
Bowser Lake Formation Jurassic
Brazeau Formation Cretaceous
Burgess Shale Formation Cambrian
Cadomin Formation Cretaceous
Cairn Formation Devonian
Cardium Formation Cretaceous
Clearwater Formation Cretaceous
Coalspur Formation Cretaceous to Paleogene
Colorado Group/Belle Fourche Formation Cretaceous
Colorado Group/Cardium Formation Cretaceous
Colorado Group/Second White Speckled Shale Cretaceous
Colorado Group/Westgate Formation Cretaceous
Cooking Lake Formation Devonian
Deadwood Formation Cambrian
Delorme Formation Silurian
Dessa Dawn Formation Carboniferous
Dinosaur Park Formation Cretaceous
Dunvegan Formation Cretaceous
Duvernay Formation Devonian
Eastend Formation Cretaceous
Edmonton Formation Cretaceous
Edmonton Group/Battle Formation Cretaceous
Edmonton Group/Horseshoe Canyon Formation Cretaceous
Edmonton Group/Scollard Formation Cretaceous to Paleogene
Edmonton Group/Whitemud Formation Cretaceous
Etherington Formation Carboniferous
Exshaw Formation Devonian
Fairholme Group Devonian
Fairholme Group/Mount Hawk Formation Devonian
Fernie Formation Jurassic
Flume Formation Devonian
Foremost Formation Cretaceous
Fort St. John Group Cretaceous
Fort St. John Group/Shaftesbury Formation Cretaceous
Frenchman Formation Cretaceous
Gates Formation Cretaceous
Ghost River Formation Devonian
Gog Group Cambrian
Hasler Formation Cretaceous
Horseshoe Canyon Formation Cretaceous
Ireton Formation Devonian
Judith River Formation Cretaceous
Judith River Group/Dinosaur Park Formation Cretaceous
Kaskapau Formation Cretaceous
Lea Park Formation Cretaceous
Leduc Formation Devonian
Livingstone Formation Carboniferous
Loon River Formation Cretaceous
Lyell Formation Cambrian
Mannville Formation Cretaceous
Mannville Group/Clearwater Formation Cretaceous
Mannville Group/Grand Rapids Formation Cretaceous
McKay Formation Ordovician
McMurray Formation Cretaceous
Mikkwa Formation Devonian
Milk River Formation Cretaceous
Mistaya Formation Cambrian
Montana Group/Pierre Shale Formation Cretaceous
Montney Formation Triassic
Mount Hawk Formation Devonian
Mowitch Formation Permian
Mural Formation Cambrian
Mural (Tah) Formation Cambrian
Nikanassin Formation Cretaceous
Nisku Formation Devonian
Nordegg Formation Jurassic
Oldman Formation Cretaceous
Outram Formation Ordovician
Pakowki Formation Cretaceous
Palliser Formation Devonian
Paskapoo Formation Paleogene
Pawkowki Formation Cretaceous
Peace River Formation Cretaceous
Peechee Formation Devonian
Perdrix Formation Devonian
Porcupine Hills Formation Paleogene
Puskwaskau Formation Cretaceous
Ranger Canyon Formation Permian
Ravenscrag Formation Cretaceous to Paleogene
Road River Group/Skoki Formation Ordovician
Rocky Mountain Group/Norquay Formation Permian
Rocky Mountain Group/Tunnel Mountain Formation Carboniferous
Rundle Group/Etherington Formation Carboniferous
Rundle Group/Livingstone Formation Carboniferous
Rundle Group/Mount Head Formation Carboniferous
Rundle Group/Tunnel Mountain Formation Carboniferous
Scollard Formation Cretaceous to Paleogene
Shaftesbury Formation Cretaceous
Simla Formation Devonian
Skoki Formation Ordovician
Slave Point Formation Devonian
Smoky Group/Bad Heart Formation Cretaceous
Smoky Group/Kaskapau Formation Cretaceous
Smoky Group/Kaskapu Formation Cretaceous
Southesk Formation Devonian
Spray River Formation Jurassic, Triassic
St. Mary River Formation Cretaceous
Stephen Formation Cambrian
Sulfur Mountain Formation Triassic
Sulphur Mountain Formation Triassic
Survey Peak Formation Ordovician, Cambrian
Swan Hills Formation Devonian
Twin Mountains Formation Cretaceous
Two Medicine Formation Cretaceous
Upper Milk River Formation Cretaceous
Wabamun Formation Devonian
Wapiabi Formation Cretaceous
Wapiti Formation Cretaceous to Paleogene
Waterways Formation Devonian
Whitemud Formation Cretaceous
Willow Creek Formation Cretaceous to Paleogene
Woodbend Group/Duvernay Formation Devonian
Woodbend Group/Leduc Formation Devonian
Yahatinda Formation Devonian

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