List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia

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

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

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