The Jizera Formation is a geologic unit of Late Cretaceous (Turonian) age, located in the Czech Republic. It is a unit of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin.Zoltan Csiki-Sava, Eric Buffetaut, Attila Ősi, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, Stephen L. Brusatte (2015) "Island life in the Cretaceous - faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago" Zookeys 469: 1-161 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.469.8439 It consists of fluvial to shallow marine sediments and pterosaur fossils are among the remains found in the Jizera Formation. The type locality of the Jizera Formation is a quarry in Zářecká Lhota.A. Fritsch. (1881). Über die Entdeckung von Vogelresten in der böhm. Kreideformation. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 1880:275-276
Paleofauna Pteranodontoid pterosaur Cretornis hlavaci - "a complete humerus (upper arm bone), an ulna, radius, wrist and two phalanges of the wing finger"Fritsch, A., (1880), "Ueber die Entdeckung von Vogelresten in der böhmischen Kreideformation (Cretornis Hlaváči)", Sitzungsberichte der königlichen-böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Prag 1880: 275–276
See also List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Europe
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