Festningen Sandstone

Festningen Sandstone
Stratigraphic range: Barremian ~125–120 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Type	Member
Unit of	Helvetiafjellet Formation
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Location
Coordinates	78.1°N 14.0°E / 78.1; 14.0
Approximate paleocoordinates	69.4°N 17.5°E / 69.4; 17.5
Region	Svalbard
Country	Norway
Festningen Sandstone (Svalbard)

The Festningen Sandstone is an Early Cretaceous (Barremian) geologic formation in Svalbard, in the far north of Norway. Fossil ornithopod tracks have been reported from the formation.[1][2][3][4]

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks
    • Ornithopod tracks
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Norway
• Lunde Formation
• Camarillas Formation
• South Polar region of the Cretaceous

References

1. Weishampel et al., 2004, pp. 517-607
2. Dinosaur tracks
3. Festningen Sandstone at Fossilworks.org
4. Lockley & Meyer, 2000, pp.220-222

Bibliography

• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21
• Lockley, Martin G.; Meyer, C.A. (2000), Dinosaur Tracks and other fossil footprints of Europe, Columbia University Press, New York, ISBN 0-231-10710-2

Further reading

• J. H. Hurum, J. Milàn, Hammer Midtkandal, H. Amundsen, and B. Sæther. 2006. Tracking polar dinosaurs—new finds from the Lower Cretaceous of Svalbard. Norwegian Journal of Geology 86:397-402
• A. F. d. Lapparent. 1960. Découverte de traces de pas de Dinosauriens dans le Crétacé du Spitzberg [Discovery of dinosaur footprints in the Cretaceous of Siptzbergen]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 251:1399-1400