Festningen Sandstone Explained

Festningen Sandstone
Type:	Member
Period:	Barremian
Age:	Barremian ~
Prilithology:	Sandstone
Region:	Svalbard
Coordinates:	78.1°N 14°W
Paleocoordinates:	69.4°N 17.5°W
Unitof:	Helvetiafjellet Formation

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

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

1. Weishampel et al., 2004, pp. 517-607
2. https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/research/projects/dinotracks/ Dinosaur tracks
3. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=collectionSearch&formation=Helvetiafjellet&member=Festningen%20Sandstone Festningen Sandstone
4. Lockley & Meyer, 2000, pp.220-222