List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia

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

Group or formation	Period	Notes
Advance Formation	Ordovician
Allenby Formation	Paleogene
Ambition Formation	Permian
Ashman Formation	Jurassic
Asitka Formation	Permian
Asitka Formation	Permian
Atan Group/Rosella Formation	Cambrian
Baldonnel Formation	Triassic
Bardonnel Formation	Triassic
Beaver Mines Formation	Early Cretaceous
Beaverfoot Formation	Silurian, Ordovician
Belcourt Formation	Permian
Billhook Formation	Jurassic
Bocock Group/Pardonet Formation	Triassic
Bonanza Formation	Jurassic, Triassic
Boulder Creek Formation	Early Cretaceous
Bowser Lake Formation	Jurassic
Brokenback Hill Formation	Cretaceous
Buckinghorse Formation	Early Cretaceous
Bullhead Group/Gething Formation	Early Cretaceous
Bullhead Group/Beattie Peaks Formation	Early Cretaceous
Bullhead Group/Monach Formation	Early Cretaceous
Burgess Shale Formation	Cambrian
Buttle Lake Formation	Permian
Cache Creek Formation	Permian
Cache Creek Group/Horsefeed Formation	Permian, Carboniferous
Cadomin Formation	Early Cretaceous
Cardium Formation	Late Cretaceous
Carmanah Formation	Paleogene
Cathedral Formation	Cambrian
Chancellor Group/Burgess Shale Formation	Cambrian
Charlie Lake Formation	Triassic
Coldwater Beds Formation	Paleogene
Commotion Formation	Early Cretaceous
Comox Formation	Cretaceous
Currier Formation	Jurassic
Cushina Formation	Ordovician
Devils Claw Formation	Cretaceous
Devon Island Formation	Devonian
Duchesnay Formation	Cambrian
Dunedin Formation	Devonian
Dunvegan Formation	Late Cretaceous
Fannin Formation	Jurassic
Fantasque Formation	Permian
Fernie Formation	Jurassic
Flume Formation	Middle Devonian to Late Devonian
Fort St. John Group/Buckinghorse Formation	Early Cretaceous
Fort St. John Group/Shaftesbury Formation	Early Cretaceous
Fort St. John Group/Sikanni Formation	Early Cretaceous
Gates Formation	Early Cretaceous
Ghost Creek Formation	Jurassic
Glenogle Formation	Ordovician
Grayling Formation	Triassic
Grey Beds Formation	Triassic
Haida Formation	Cretaceous
Hall Formation	Jurassic
Harbledown Formation	Jurassic
Harper Ranch Formation	Permian
Harrison Lake Formation	Jurassic
Haslam Formation	Cretaceous
Hazelton Formation	Cretaceous, Jurassic
Hazelton Group/Cold Fish Volcanics Formation	Jurassic
Hazelton Group/Lower Limestone Formation	Jurassic
Hazelton Group/Lower Volcanics Formation	Jurassic
Hazelton Group/Nilkitkwa Formation	Jurassic
Hazelton Group/Smithers Formation	Jurassic
Hazelton Group/Spatsizi Formation	Jurassic
Hazelton Formation	Jurassic
Honna Formation	Cretaceous
Hazelton Group/Smithers Formation	Jurassic
Hulcross Formation	Early Cretaceous
Ishbel Formation	Permian
Jackass Mountain Formation	Cretaceous
Kakisa Formation	Devonian
Kamloops Formation	Paleogene
Karmutsen Formation	Triassic
Kaskapau Formation	Late Cretaceous
Kechika Formation	Ordovician
Keg River Formation	Middle Devonian
Kindle Formation	Permian
King Salmon Formation	Triassic
Kingsvale Formation	Cretaceous
Kishenehn Formation	Paleogene
Kootenay Group	latest Jurassic to earliestCretaceous
Kunga Group/Peril Formation	Triassic
Kunga Group/Sandilands Formation	Jurassic, Triassic
Laberge Formation	Jurassic
Laberge Group/Takwahoni Formation	Jurassic
Laird Formation	Triassic
Last Creek Formation	Jurassic
Lepine Formation	Cretaceous
Liard Formation	Triassic
Ludington Formation	Triassic
Marble Canyon Formation	Permian
Maude Group	Jurassic
Maude Group/Fannin Formation	Jurassic
Maude Group/Ghost Creek Formation	Jurassic
Maude Group/Phantom Creek Formation	Jurassic
Maude Group/Whiteaves Formation	Jurassic
McEvoy Formation	Cretaceous
McGregor Creek Formation	Permian
McKay Group	Ordovician, Cambrian
McKay Group/E Formation	Ordovician
McKay Group/Unit H Formation	Cambrian
Miette Group	Ediacaran
Miette Group/Byng Formation	Ediacaran
Minnes Group	Early Cretaceous
Mist Mountain Formation	latest Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous
Monteith Formation	Early Cretaceous
Moosebar Formation	Early Cretaceous
Mount Greene Formation	Permian
Mount Hawk Formation	Late Devonian
Mount Mark Formation	Permian
Mount Whyte Formation	Cambrian
Mural Formation	Cambrian
Mural (Tah) Formation	Cambrian
Nanaimo Group	Cretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Cedar District Formation	Cretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Comox Formation	Cretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Extension Formation	Cretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Newcastle Formation	Cretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Northumberland Formation	Cretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Protection Formation	Cretaceous
Nanaimo Group/Spray Formation	Cretaceous
Nicola Formation	Triassic
Northumberland Formation	Cretaceous
Ootsa Lake Formation	Paleogene
Open Bay Formation	Triassic
Opuntia Formation	Jurassic
Pardonet Formation	Triassic
Pardonet Group/Baldonnel Formation	Triassic
Parsons Bay Formation	Triassic
Pasayten Formation	Cretaceous
Pender Formation	Cretaceous
Peril Formation	Triassic
Phantom Creek Formation	Jurassic
Princeton Group	Paleogene
Princeton Group/Allenby Formation	Paleogene
Ptarmigan Formation	Cambrian
Quatsino Formation	Triassic
Ranger Canyon Formation	Permian
Road River Formation	Silurian
Rocky Mountain Group/Ishbel Formation	Permian
Rocky Mountain Group/Tunnel Mountain Formation	Carboniferous
Rosella Formation	Cambrian
Ross Creek Formation	Permian
Sadler Formation	Triassic
Salmon River Formation	Jurassic
Sandilands Formation	Jurassic, Triassic
Schooler Creek Group/Pardonet Formation	Triassic
Second White Speckled Shale Formation	Late Cretaceous
Simla Formation	Devonian
Sinwa Formation	Triassic
Skidgate Formation	Cretaceous
Skoki Formation	Ordovician
Skonun Formation	Neogene
Slave Point Formation	Middle Devonian
Slocan Formation	Triassic
Smithers Formation	Jurassic
Smoky Group/Kaskapau Formation	Late Cretaceous
Sooke Formation	Paleogene
Spence Bridge Formation	Cretaceous
Spray River Formation	Triassic
Stephen Formation	Cambrian
Stuhini Formation	Triassic
Sulphur Mountain Formation	Triassic
Sulphur Point Formation	Devonian
Sustut Group/Brothers Peak Formation	Cretaceous
Sutton Formation	Triassic
Takla Formation	Triassic
Telford Formation	Permian
Telkwa Formation	Jurassic
Toad Formation	Triassic
Transitional Beds Formation	Triassic
Tyaughton Formation	Triassic
Uslika Formation	Cretaceous
Vermilion Formation	Cambrian
Whiteaves Formation	Jurassic
Yakoun Formation	Jurassic
Yakoun Group/Graham Island Formation	Jurassic

References

• Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.