Festningen Sandstone

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]

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
Approximate paleocoordinates	69.4°N 17.5°E
Region	Svalbard
Country	Norway
Festningen Sandstone (Svalbard)

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.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN 0-520-24209-2
• Lockley, Martin G., and C.A. Meyer. 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