Fruitland
81 occ.
33 taxa (12 genera)
1 countries
Description
The Fruitland Formation is a geologic formation found in the San Juan Basin in the states of New Mexico and Colorado, in the United States of America. It contains fossils dating it to the Campanian age of the late Cretaceous.
Genera
12 genera
Temporal range
252
201
145
66
0 Ma
Geological group / Member
Fossil Forest
30
Bisti
3
Ne-nah-ne-zad
1
Lower Shale
1
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
81
Depositional environments
Terrestrial indet.
62
Marine indet.
6
Coarse channel fill
6
Crevasse splay
4
Channel lag
2
Fluvial-deltaic indet.
1
Top collectors
C. H. Sternberg
12
Bauer
4
W. Clemens
4
T. Lehman
3
P. Sealey
3
B. Kues et al.
2
C. Horton
2
D. Wolberg
2
J. Stovall
1
Kansas Univ.
1
S. Lucas
1
Stovall
1
Collection activity by decade
1910s
4
1920s
13
1930s
1
1940s
2
1960s
3
1970s
5
1980s
6
2000s
3