The Whiteaves Formation is a
geologic formation in
British Columbia. It preserves
fossils
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
dating back to the
Jurassic period.
See also
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Italy
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Toarcian turnover
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Toarcian formations
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Marne di Monte Serrone
The Marne di Monte Serrone ("Monte Serrone Marl") is a geological formation in Italy, dating to roughly between 181 and 178 million years ago,Baldanza, 1989Sabatino et al., 2009 and covering the early and middle Toarcian stage of the Jurassic ...
, Italy
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Calcare di Sogno
The Calcare di Sogno ("Sogno Limestone"; also known as the Sogno Formation) is a geological formation in Italy, dated to roughly between 183-181 million years ago and covering the Toarcian stages of the Jurassic Period in the Mesozoic Era.CARTA GE ...
, Italy
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Sachrang Formation
The Posidonia Shale (german: Posidonienschiefer, also called Schistes Bitumineux in Luxembourg) geologically known as the Sachrang Formation, is an Early Jurassic (Toarcian) geological formation of southwestern and northeast Germany, northern Swit ...
, Austria
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Saubach Formation, Austria
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Posidonia Shale
The Posidonia Shale (german: Posidonienschiefer, also called Schistes Bitumineux in Luxembourg) geologically known as the Sachrang Formation, is an Early Jurassic (Toarcian) geological formation of southwestern and northeast Germany, northern Swit ...
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Lagerstätte in Germany
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Ciechocinek Formation, Germany and Poland
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Krempachy Marl Formation
The Krempachy Marl Formation is a geological formation in Poland and Slovakia, dating to about 179 million years ago, and covering the middle Toarcian stage of the Jurassic Period.Birkenmajer, K. 1977. Jurassic and Cretaceous lithostratigraphic ...
, Poland and Slovakia
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Lava Formation
The Lava Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Lithuania and Kaliningrad, being either the sister or the same unit as the Ciechocinek Formation. It represents the outcrop of Lower Toarcian layers in the Baltic Syncline and in the Lithua ...
, Lithuania
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Azilal Group
The Azilal Formation (historically Toundute Continental Series and Wazzant Formation)Known wholly in the past by the current sub-unit terms ''Toundute Continental Series'' and ''The Wazzant Formation'' is a geological unit in the Azilal and Ouarz ...
, North Africa
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Whitby Mudstone, England
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Fernie Formation, Alberta and British Columbia
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Poker Chip Shale
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Navajo Sandstone, Utah
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Los Molles Formation
The Los Molles Formation is a geologic formation of Early to Middle Jurassic age, located at northern and central part of Neuquén Basin at Mendoza Shelf in Argentina. It is overlain by the Niyeu–Lajas Formation.McIlroy et al., 2005
Descript ...
, Argentina
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Mawson Formation, Antarctica
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Kandreho Formation
The Kandreho Formation is an Early Jurassic (middle or late Toarcian) geological formation of the Mahajanga Basin of Madagascar. The marly limestones of the formation were deposited in a subtidal lagoonal environment. The formation overlie ...
, Madagascar
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Kota Formation, India
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Cattamarra Coal Measures, Australia
References
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Geologic formations of Canada
Jurassic British Columbia
Toarcian Stage
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