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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Northwest Territories

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This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Alexandra Formation{{cite journal | last1=Macneil | first1=Alex J. | last2=Jones | first2=Brian | title=Sequence stratigraphy of a Late Devonian ramp-situated reef system in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: dynamic responses to sea-level change and regressive reef development | journal=Sedimentology | volume=53 | issue=2 |year=2006| doi=10.1111/j.1365-3091.2005.00767.x | pages=321–359| bibcode=2006Sedim..53..321M }}Devonian
Bad Cache Rapids FormationOrdovician
Bad Cache Rapids FormationOrdovician
Barlow Inlet FormationSilurian
Bear Rock FormationDevonian
Blue Fjord FormationDevonian
Blueflower FormationEdiacaran
Boas River FormationOrdovician
Broken Skull FormationOrdovician
Buchanan Lake FormationPaleogene
Bug Creek FormationJurassic
Bug Creek Group/Almstrom Creek FormationJurassic
Bug Creek Group/Murray Ridge FormationJurassic
Cape Phillips FormationSilurian
Christopher FormationCretaceous
Churchill River FormationOrdovician
Deer Bay FormationCretaceous
Delorme FormationDevonian, Silurian
Douro FormationSilurian
Esbataottine FormationOrdovician
Eureka Sound Group/Margaret FormationPaleogene
Fort Simpson FormationDevonian
Funeral FormationDevonian
Hare Indian FormationDevonian
Haughton FormationNeogene
Hay River FormationDevonian
Headless FormationDevonian
Heiberg FormationJurassic, Triassic
Hiccles Cove FormationJurassic
Horn Plateau FormationDevonian
Hume FormationDevonian
Imperial FormationDevonian
Ingta FormationEdiacaran, Cambrian
Kakisa FormationDevonian
Kee Scarp FormationDevonian
Loon River FormationCretaceous
Manuel Creek FormationJurassic
Mason River FormationCretaceous
Mokka Fiord FormationPaleogene
Mount Cap FormationCambrian
Mount Goodenough FormationCretaceous
Nahanni FormationDevonian
Okse Bay Group/Norstrand FormationDevonian
Pine Point FormationDevonian
Ramparts FormationDevonian
Rat River FormationCretaceous
Read Bay FormationSilurian
Red Head Rapids FormationOrdovician
Redknife FormationDevonian
Ringnes FormationJurassic
Road River FormationSilurian, Ordovician, Cambrian
Rockslide FormationCambrian
Sans Sault FormationCretaceous
Schei Point FormationTriassic
Sekwi FormationCambrian
Sheepbed FormationEdiacaran
Ship Point FormationOrdovician
Slave Point FormationDevonian
Smoking Hills FormationCretaceous
Somerset Island FormationSilurian
Sulphur Point FormationDevonian
Summit Creek FormationCretaceous
Sunblood FormationOrdovician
Sutherland River FormationSilurian
Tathlina FormationDevonian
Trold Fiord FormationPermian
Twin Falls FormationDevonian
Vendom Fiord FormationDevonian
Vunta FormationSilurian, Ordovician
Whittaker FormationSilurian, Ordovician
Williams Island FormationDevonian
Windermere Group/Twitya FormationEdiacaran

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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