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Frontier Formation, the Glossary

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The Frontier Formation is a sedimentary geological formation whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 24 relations: Callichimaera, Cenomanian, Cody Shale, Collignoniceras, Colorado, Coniacian, Dinosaur, Dinosaur National Monument, Geological formation, Geological Society of America, Hadrosauroidea, Idaho, Late Cretaceous, Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units, Montana, Mowry Shale, Nodosaurus, North America, Sandstone, Shale, Stegopelta, Thermopolis Shale, Utah, Wyoming.

  2. Cretaceous geology of Utah
  3. Cretaceous geology of Wyoming
  4. Geologic formations of the United States

Callichimaera

Callichimaera perplexa is a species of small crabs known from the Cretaceous Churuvita Group of Colombia and the Frontier Formation of the United States.

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Cenomanian

The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series.

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Cody Shale

The Cody Shale is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation. Frontier Formation and Cody Shale are Cretaceous geology of Wyoming and United States geologic formation stubs.

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Collignoniceras

Collignociceras is a strongly ribbed and tuberculate, evolute ammonite from the Turonian of the western U.S. and Europe belonging to the ammonitid family Collignoniceratidae.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Coniacian

The Coniacian is an age or stage in the geologic timescale.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dinosaur National Monument

Dinosaur National Monument is an American national monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa rivers.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Geological Society of America

The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences.

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Hadrosauroidea

Hadrosauroidea is a clade or superfamily of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes the "duck-billed" dinosaurs, or hadrosauridae, and all dinosaurs more closely related to them than to Iguanodon.

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Idaho

Idaho is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units

This list of dinosaur-bearing rock formations is a list of geologic formations in which dinosaur fossils have been documented.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Mowry Shale

The Mowry Shale is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation. Frontier Formation and Mowry Shale are Cretaceous geology of Wyoming and United States geologic formation stubs.

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Nodosaurus

Nodosaurus (meaning 'knobbed lizard') is a genus of herbivorous nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, the fossils of which are found exclusively in the Frontier Formation in Wyoming.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Stegopelta

Stegopelta (meaning "roofed shield") is a genus of struthiosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur.

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Thermopolis Shale

The Thermopolis Shale is a geologic formation which formed in west-central North America in the Albian age of the Late Cretaceous period.

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Utah

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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See also

Cretaceous geology of Utah

Cretaceous geology of Wyoming

Geologic formations of the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Formation

Also known as Frontier Sandstone.