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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia

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This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia, Canada.

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Advance FormationOrdovician
Allenby FormationPaleogene
Ambition FormationPermian
Ashman FormationJurassic
Asitka FormationPermian
Asitka FormationPermian
Atan Group/Rosella FormationCambrian
Baldonnel FormationTriassic
Bardonnel FormationTriassic
Beaver Mines FormationEarly Cretaceous
Beaverfoot FormationSilurian, Ordovician
Belcourt FormationPermian
Billhook FormationJurassic
Bocock Group/Pardonet FormationTriassic
Bonanza FormationJurassic, Triassic
Boulder Creek FormationEarly Cretaceous
Bowser Lake FormationJurassic
Brokenback Hill FormationCretaceous
Buckinghorse FormationEarly Cretaceous
Bullhead Group/Gething FormationEarly Cretaceous
Bullhead Group/Beattie Peaks FormationEarly Cretaceous
Bullhead Group/Monach FormationEarly Cretaceous
Burgess Shale FormationCambrian
Buttle Lake FormationPermian
Cache Creek FormationPermian
Cache Creek Group/Horsefeed FormationPermian, Carboniferous
Cadomin FormationEarly Cretaceous
Cardium FormationLate Cretaceous
Carmanah FormationPaleogene
Cathedral FormationCambrian
Chancellor Group/Burgess Shale FormationCambrian
Charlie Lake FormationTriassic
Coldwater Beds FormationPaleogene
Commotion FormationEarly Cretaceous
Comox FormationCretaceous
Currier FormationJurassic
Cushina FormationOrdovician
Devils Claw FormationCretaceous
Devon Island FormationDevonian
Duchesnay FormationCambrian
Dunedin FormationDevonian
Dunvegan FormationLate Cretaceous
Fannin FormationJurassic
Fantasque FormationPermian
Fernie FormationJurassic
Flume FormationMiddle Devonian to Late Devonian
Fort St. John Group/Buckinghorse FormationEarly Cretaceous
Fort St. John Group/Shaftesbury FormationEarly Cretaceous
Fort St. John Group/Sikanni FormationEarly Cretaceous
Gates FormationEarly Cretaceous
Ghost Creek FormationJurassic
Glenogle FormationOrdovician
Grayling FormationTriassic
Grey Beds FormationTriassic
Haida FormationCretaceous
Hall FormationJurassic
Harbledown FormationJurassic
Harper Ranch FormationPermian
Harrison Lake FormationJurassic
Haslam FormationCretaceous
Hazelton FormationCretaceous, Jurassic
Hazelton Group/Cold Fish Volcanics FormationJurassic
Hazelton Group/Lower Limestone FormationJurassic
Hazelton Group/Lower Volcanics FormationJurassic
Hazelton Group/Nilkitkwa FormationJurassic
Hazelton Group/Smithers FormationJurassic
Hazelton Group/Spatsizi FormationJurassic
Hazelton FormationJurassic
Honna FormationCretaceous
Hazelton Group/Smithers FormationJurassic
Hulcross FormationEarly Cretaceous
Ishbel FormationPermian
Jackass Mountain FormationCretaceous
Kakisa FormationDevonian
Kamloops FormationPaleogene
Karmutsen FormationTriassic
Kaskapau FormationLate Cretaceous
Kechika FormationOrdovician
Keg River FormationMiddle Devonian
Kindle FormationPermian
King Salmon FormationTriassic
Kingsvale FormationCretaceous
Kishenehn FormationPaleogene
Kootenay Grouplatest Jurassic to earliestCretaceous
Kunga Group/Peril FormationTriassic
Kunga Group/Sandilands FormationJurassic, Triassic
Laberge FormationJurassic
Laberge Group/Takwahoni FormationJurassic
Laird FormationTriassic
Last Creek FormationJurassic
Lepine FormationCretaceous
Liard FormationTriassic
Ludington FormationTriassic
Marble Canyon FormationPermian
Maude GroupJurassic
Maude Group/Fannin FormationJurassic
Maude Group/Ghost Creek FormationJurassic
Maude Group/Phantom Creek FormationJurassic
Maude Group/Whiteaves FormationJurassic
McEvoy FormationCretaceous
McGregor Creek FormationPermian
McKay GroupOrdovician, Cambrian
McKay Group/E FormationOrdovician
McKay Group/Unit H FormationCambrian
Miette GroupEdiacaran
Miette Group/Byng FormationEdiacaran
Minnes GroupEarly Cretaceous
Mist Mountain Formationlatest Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous
Monteith FormationEarly Cretaceous
Moosebar FormationEarly Cretaceous
Mount Greene FormationPermian
Mount Hawk FormationLate Devonian
Mount Mark FormationPermian
Mount Whyte FormationCambrian
Mural FormationCambrian
Mural (Tah) FormationCambrian
Nanaimo GroupCretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Cedar District FormationCretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Comox FormationCretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Extension FormationCretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Newcastle FormationCretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Northumberland FormationCretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Protection FormationCretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Spray FormationCretaceous
Nicola FormationTriassic
Northumberland FormationCretaceous
Ootsa Lake FormationPaleogene
Open Bay FormationTriassic
Opuntia FormationJurassic
Pardonet FormationTriassic
Pardonet Group/Baldonnel FormationTriassic
Parsons Bay FormationTriassic
Pasayten FormationCretaceous
Pender FormationCretaceous
Peril FormationTriassic
Phantom Creek FormationJurassic
Princeton GroupPaleogene
Princeton Group/Allenby FormationPaleogene
Ptarmigan FormationCambrian
Quatsino FormationTriassic
Ranger Canyon FormationPermian
Road River FormationSilurian
Rocky Mountain Group/Ishbel FormationPermian
Rocky Mountain Group/Tunnel Mountain FormationCarboniferous
Rosella FormationCambrian
Ross Creek FormationPermian
Sadler FormationTriassic
Salmon River FormationJurassic
Sandilands FormationJurassic, Triassic
Schooler Creek Group/Pardonet FormationTriassic
Second White Speckled Shale FormationLate Cretaceous
Simla FormationDevonian
Sinwa FormationTriassic
Skidgate FormationCretaceous
Skoki FormationOrdovician
Skonun FormationNeogene
Slave Point FormationMiddle Devonian
Slocan FormationTriassic
Smithers FormationJurassic
Smoky Group/Kaskapau FormationLate Cretaceous
Sooke FormationPaleogene
Spence Bridge FormationCretaceous
Spray River FormationTriassic
Stephen FormationCambrian
Stuhini FormationTriassic
Sulphur Mountain FormationTriassic
Sulphur Point FormationDevonian
Sustut Group/Brothers Peak FormationCretaceous
Sutton FormationTriassic
Takla FormationTriassic
Telford FormationPermian
Telkwa FormationJurassic
Toad FormationTriassic
Transitional Beds FormationTriassic
Tyaughton FormationTriassic
Uslika FormationCretaceous
Vermilion FormationCambrian
Whiteaves FormationJurassic
Yakoun FormationJurassic
Yakoun Group/Graham Island FormationJurassic

References

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  • {{cite web|title= Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database|author= ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database))|url= https://www.fossilworks.org|access-date= 17 December 2021}}

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