Frontier Formation

The Frontier Formation is a sedimentary geological formation whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. The formation's extents are: northwest Colorado, southeast Idaho, southern Montana, northern Utah, and western Wyoming. It occurs in many sedimentary basins and uplifted areas.

Frontier Formation Stratigraphic range: Cenomanian
Frontier Formation in Utah (Dinosaur National Monument)
Type	Geological formation
Sub-units	Torchlight Sandstone Member, Peay Sandstone Member
Underlies	Cody Shale
Overlies	Mowry Shale, Thermopolis Shale
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Other	Shale
Location
Region	North America
Country	United States
Extent	see text
Type section
Named by	W. C. Knight, 1902[1]

The formation is described by W.G. Pierce as thick, lenticular, grey sandstone, gray shale, carbonaceous shale, and bentonite.[2]

Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[3]

Vertebrate paleofauna

• Nodosaurus textilis
• Stegopelta landerensis - "Partial postcranium, osteoderms, [and] fragments of skull."[4]

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

References

1. W.C. Knight, 1902, Eng. and Min. Jour., v. 73, p. 721
2. Pierce, W.G., 1997, Geologic map of the Cody 1 degree x 2 degrees quadrangle, northwestern Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-2500, scale 1:250000.
3. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, North America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 574-588. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
4. "Table 17.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 367.