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Frenchman Formation
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Frenchman Formation
The
Frenchman Formation
is
stratigraphic
unit of
Late Cretaceous
(late
Maastrichtian
)
age
in the
Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
. It is present in southern
Saskatchewan
and the
Cypress Hills
of southeastern Alberta. The formation was defined by G.M. Furnival in 1942 from observations of
outcrops
along the
Frenchman River
, between
Ravenscrag
and
Highway 37
. It contains the youngest of dinosaur genera, much like the
Hell Creek Formation
in the United States.
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