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

Group or formation Period Stage Dominant lithology Depositionalenvironment Alberta Group/Waipiabi Formation Late Cretaceous Cenomanian to Santonian shale marine Alexo Formation Late Devonian Frasnian to Famennian dolomitic limestone marine Bad Heart Formation Late Cretaceous Turonian shale marine Banff Formation Mississippian Tournasian limestone marine Battle Formation (Edmonton Group) Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian mudstone nonmarine Bearpaw Formation (Edmonton Group) Late Cretaceous Campanian Campanian shale marine Beaverfoot Formation Ordovician to Silurian Ashgillian to Llandoverian dolomite marine Beaverhill Lake Group Devonian late Givetian to early Frasnian limestone marine Beaverhill Lake Group/Slave Point Formation Late Devonian Frasnian limestone marine Beaverhill Lake Group/Waterways Formation Middle Devonian to Late Devonian late Givetian to Frasnian limestone, calcareous shale marine Belcourt Formation Early Permian Asselian to Sakmarian dolomite, limestone marine Belle Fourche Formation (Colorado Group) Cretaceous Cenomanian shale marine Belloy Formation Permian Artinskian to Roadian dolomite, sandstone marine Belly River Formation (Judith River Formation) Late Cretaceous Campanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Belly River Group/Allison Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Belly River Group/Dinosaur Park Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Belly River Group/Foremost Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Belly River Group/Oldman Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Bison Creek Formation Late Cambrian shale marine Blackstone Formation Late Cretaceous Cenomanian to Turonian shale marine Blairmore Group/Luscar Group Early Cretaceous Aptian to Albian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Blood Reserve Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian sandstone nonmarine Brazeau Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian to Maastrichtian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Burgess Shale Formation (Stephen Formation) Middle Cambrian shale marine Cadomin Formation Early Cretaceous Barremian to Aptian conglomerate, sandstone nonmarine Cairn Formation Late Devonian Frasnian calcareous dolomite marine Cardium Formation (Colorado Group) Late Cretaceous Turonian to Coniacian sandstone, siltstone marine Clearwater Formation (Mannville Group) Early Cretaceous Albian shale marine Coalspur Formation Late Cretaceous to Paleocene Maastrichtian to Danian sandstone, siltstone, coal nonmarine Colorado Group/Belle Fourche Formation Cretaceous Cenomanian shale marine Colorado Group/Cardium Formation Late Cretaceous Turonian to Coniacian sandstone, siltstone marine Colorado Group/Second White Speckled Shale Late Cretaceous Cenomanian to Turonian shale marine Colorado Group/Westgate Formation Late Cretaceous Turonian shale marine Cooking Lake Formation Late Devonian Frasnian limestone marine Deadwood Formation Middle to Late Cambrian sandstone marine Dessa Dawn Formation (obsolete) Mississippian limestone marine Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group) (Judith River Group) Late Cretaceous Campanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Dunvegan Formation Late Cretaceous Cenomanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Duvernay Formation Late Devonian Frasnian bituminous limestone, argillaceous limestone marine Edmonton Group Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene Campanian to Danian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Edmonton Group/Battle Formation Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian mudstone nonmarine Edmonton Group/Horseshoe Canyon Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian to early Maastrichtian sandstone, siltstone, coal nonmarine Edmonton Group/Scollard Formation Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene Maastrichtian to Danian sandstone, siltstone, coal nonmarine Edmonton Group/Whitemud Formation Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian sandstone, siltstone, claystone nonmarine Etherington Formation Mississippian Serpukhovian dolomitic limestone marine Exshaw Formation Late Devonian to Early Mississippian late Famennian to middle Tournasian shale marine Fairholme Group Late Devonian Frasnian dolomite marine Fairholme Group/Mount Hawk Formation Devonian Frasnian dolomite marine Fernie Formation Jurassic Hettangian to middle Tithonian shale, siltstone marine Flume Formation Late Devonian Frasnian dolomite marine Foremost Formation (Belly River Group) Late Cretaceous Campanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Fort St. John Group Cretaceous Albian to Cenomanian sandstone, siltstone, shale nonmarine and marine Fort St. John Group/Shaftesbury Formation Cretaceous Albian to Cenomanian shale marine Gates Formation Early Cretaceous Albian sandstone, siltstone, coal nonmarine Ghost River Formation (obsolete) Cambrian to Middle Devonian Gog Group Early Cambrian quartzose sandstone, conglomerate Grand Rapids Formation (Mannville Group) Early Cretaceous Albian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Hasler Formation Early Cretaceous Albian shale marine Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Edmonton Group) Late Cretaceous Campanian to early Maastrichtian sandstone, siltstone, coal nonmarine Ireton Formation Late Devonian Frasnian shale marine Judith River Formation (Belly River Formation) Late Cretaceous Campanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Judith River Group/Dinosaur Park Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Kananaskis Formation Late Carboniferous Late Pennsylvanian limestone, dolomite, chert marine Kaskapau Formation Late Cretaceous Cenomanian to Turonian shale marine Lea Park Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian shale marine Leduc Formation Late Devonian Frasnian dolomite marine Livingstone Formation (Rundle Group) Mississippian Tournasian to Visean dolomitic limestone marine Loon River Formation (obsolete) Early Cretaceous Albian shale marine Lyell Formation Late Cambrian Dresbachian limestone, dolomite marine Mannville Group Early Cretaceous Barremian to Albian sandstone, siltstone, shale nonmarine and marine Mannville Group/Clearwater Formation Early Cretaceous Albian shale marine Mannville Group/Grand Rapids Formation Early Cretaceous Albian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Mannville Group/McMurray Formation Early Cretaceous late Barremian to Aptian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine, marginal marine McMurray Formation (Mannville Group) Early Cretaceous late Barremian to Aptian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine, marginal marine Mikkwa Formation Middle Devonian Givetian dolomitic limestone marine Milk River Formation Late Cretaceous Santonian to Campanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Mistaya Formation Late Cambrian limestone marine Montney Formation Early Triassic Olenekian siltstone, shale marine Mount Hawk Formation (Fairholme Group) Late Devonian Frasnian to Famennian dolomite, limestone marine Mount Head Formation (Rundle Group) Mississippian Visean dolomitic limestone marine Mowitch Formation Permian Guadalupian sandstone, calcareous sandstone marine Mural Formation Early Cambrian limestone, dolomite marine Nikanassin Formation Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Portlandian to Barremian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Nisku Formation Late Devonian Frasnian dolomite marine Nordegg Formation (Fernie Group) Jurassic limestone marine Norquay Formation (obsolete) Permian Oldman Formation (Belly River Group) Late Cretaceous Campanian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Outram Formation Early Ordovician limestone, shale marine Pakowki Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian shale, siltstone marine Palliser Formation Late Devonian Famennian limestone marine Paskapoo Formation late Paleocene Thanetian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Peace River Formation Early Cretaceous Albian sandstone, siltstone, shale marine and nonmarine Peechee Formation late Devonian Frasnian dolomite, calcareous dolomite marine Perdrix Formation Late Devonian Frasnian calcareous shale marine Porcupine Hills Formation late Paleocene Danian sandstone, siltstone, shale nonmarine Puskwaskau Formation Late Cretaceous Santonian to Campanian shale marine Ranger Canyon Formation Permian Guadalupian to Lopingian sandstone, dolomite marine Rocky Mountain Group Permian dolomite, sandstone marine Rundle Group/Etherington Formation Mississippian Serpukhovian dolomitic limestone marine Rundle Group/Livingstone Formation Mississippian Tournasian to Visean dolomitic limestone marine Rundle Group/Mount Head Formation Mississippian Visean dolomitic limestone marine Rundle Group/Tunnel Mountain Formation Mississippian sandstone, dolomitic sandstone marine Scollard Formation (Edmonton Group) Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene Maastrichtian to Danian sandstone, siltstone, coal nonmarine Second White Speckled Shale (Colorado Group) Late Cretaceous Cenomanian to Turonian shale marine Shaftesbury Formation Cretaceous Albian to Cenomanian shale marine Simla Formation Late Devonian Frasnian siltstone, dolomitic limestone marine Skoki Formation Middle Ordovician dolomite marine Slave Point Formation (Beaverhill Lake Group) Middle Devonian Givetian limestone marine Smoky Group/Bad Heart Formation Late Cretaceous Turonian shale marine Smoky Group/Kaskapau Formation Late Cretaceous Cenomanian to Turonian shale marine Southesk Formation Late Devonian Frasnian dolomite marine Spray River Formation Triassic siltstone, shale, dolomite marine and nonmarine St. Mary River Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian to Maastrichtian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Stephen Formation Middle Cambrian shale marine Sulphur Mountain Formation Triassic siltstone, dolomite, shale marine Survey Peak Formation Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician calcareous shale, limestone marine Swan Hills Formation Middle Devonian late Givetian limestone marine Tunnel Mountain Formation (Rundle Group) Mississippian sandstone, dolomitic sandstone marine Two Medicine Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian claystone, sandstone nonmarine Wabamun Formation Late Devonian Famennian limestone, dolomite marine Wapiabi Formation Late Cretaceous Coniacian to Campanian shale, siltstone marine Wapiti Formation Late Cretaceous Campanian to Maastrichtian sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Waterways Formation (Beaverhill Lake Group) Middle Devonian to Late Devonian late Givetian to Frasnian limestone, calcareous shale marine Westgate Formation (Colorado Group) Late Cretaceous Turonian shale marine Whitemud Formation (Edmonton Group) Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian sandstone, claystone nonmarine Willow Creek Formation Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian to Paleocene sandstone, siltstone nonmarine Woodbend Group/Duvernay Formation Late Devonian Frasnian bituminous limestone, argillaceous limestone marine Woodbend Group/Leduc Formation Late Devonian Frasnian dolomite marine Yahatinda Formation Middle Devonian Givetian dolomitic sandstone, conglomerate, mudstone nonmarine and marine

References

Glass, D.J. (editor) 1997. Lexicon of Canadian Stratigraphy, vol. 4, Western Canada including eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, 1423 p. on CD-ROM. .