# Blufftown Formation

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{{Short description|Mesozoic geologic formation in the southern United States}}
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The '''Blufftown Formation''' is a [Mesozoic](/source/Mesozoic) geologic [formation](/source/Formation_(geology)) in the southern United States.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Watson H. Monroe (2) |date=1947 |title=Stratigraphy of Outcropping Cretaceous Beds of Southeastern States |url=https://doi.org/10.1306/3d933a58-16b1-11d7-8645000102c1865d |journal=AAPG Bulletin |volume=31 |doi=10.1306/3d933a58-16b1-11d7-8645000102c1865d |issn=0149-1423|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rosen |first=Rashel N. |date=1985 |title=Foraminiferal Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Blufftown Formation (Santonian-Campanian) of Georgia and Eastern Alabama |url=https://archives.datapages.com/data/gcags/data/035/035001/0485.htm |language=en-US |volume=35}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Simmons |first=David |date=2018-08-01 |title=Sequence Stratigraphy of Campanian-Maastrichtian Strata in Eastern Alabama |url=https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/378/ |journal=Master's Theses}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=King |first=David T., Jr. |title=Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy and sea-level history, Gulf Coastal Plain of central and eastern Alabama |date=1994-01-01 |work=Perspectives on the Eastern Margin of the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin |pages=0 |editor-last=Shurr |editor-first=George W. |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/edited-volume/429/chapter-abstract/3798569/Upper-Cretaceous-stratigraphy-and-sea-level?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=2025-01-26 |publisher=Geological Society of America |isbn=978-0-8137-2287-0 |last2=Skotnicki |first2=Michael C. |editor2-last=Ludvigson |editor2-first=Greg A. |editor3-last=Hammond |editor3-first=Richard H.}}</ref> [Dinosaur](/source/Dinosaur) remains are among the fossils that [have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus except "''Ornithomimus" antiquus.''](/source/Hadrosauridae)<ref name="dinosaurdistribution">Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.</ref> [Indeterminate hadrosaur](/source/Hadrosauridae) and [tyrannosaur](/source/Tyrannosauroidea) fossils have been found here.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schwimmer |first=David R. |last2=Williams |first2=G. Dent |last3=Dobie |first3=James L. |last4=Siesser |first4=William G. |date=1993 |title=Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs from the Blufftown Formation in Western Georgia and Eastern Alabama |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1305997 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=288–296 |issn=0022-3360}}</ref> [Fish](/source/Fish) fossils have been found here too.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Case |first=Gerard R. |last2=Schwimmer |first2=David R. |date=March 1988 |title=Late Cretaceous fish from the Blufftown Formation (Campanian) in western Georgia |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000029942 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=290–301 |doi=10.1017/s0022336000029942 |issn=0022-3360|url-access=subscription }}</ref> [Ostracod](/source/Ostracod) fossils have also been unearthed here too.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Puckett |first=T. Markham |date=1992 |title=Distribution of Ostracodes in the Upper Cretaceous (Late Santonian Through Middle Maastrichtian) of Alabama and Mississippi |url=https://doi.org/10.1306/d9cb4f49-1715-11d7-8645000102c1865d |journal=AAPG Bulletin |volume=76 |doi=10.1306/d9cb4f49-1715-11d7-8645000102c1865d |issn=0149-1423|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==See also==
* [List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations](/source/List_of_dinosaur-bearing_rock_formations)
** [List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils](/source/List_of_stratigraphic_units_with_indeterminate_dinosaur_fossils)

==References==
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* Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp.&nbsp;{{ISBN|0-520-24209-2}}.

Category:Geologic formations of Alabama
Category:Campanian Stage
Category:Cretaceous Alabama

Category:Cretaceous Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:Geologic formations of Georgia (U.S. state)

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