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The Denver Formation is a geological formation in Colorado whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous

Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous series...

. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

Ornithischians

Ornithischians reported from the Denver Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Cionodon Cionodon Cionodon was a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. The type species, Cionodon arctatus lived in what is now present-day Colorado. It is classified as a hadrosaur, and was formally described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1874. It is a nomen dubium because it is based on very fragmentary...	C. arctatus			"Fragmentary maxilla, vertebrae, fragmentary postcranial elements."	Later found to be indeterminate hadrosaurid remains.
Edmontosaurus Edmontosaurus Edmontosaurus is a genus of crestless hadrosaurid dinosaur. It contains two species: Edmontosaurus regalis and Edmontosaurus annectens. Fossils of E. regalis have been found in rocks of western North America that date from the late Campanian stage of the Cretaceous Period 73 million years ago,...	Indeterminate
Pachycephalosaurus Pachycephalosaurus Pachycephalosaurus is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. Remains have been excavated in Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming. It was an herbivorous or omnivorous creature which is only known from a single skull and a few...	Indeterminate
Polyonax Polyonax Polyonax was a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Denver Formation of Colorado, USA...	P. mortuarius			"Horn fragments, vertebrae." (type specimen)	A dubious ceratopsian
Triceratops Triceratops Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene...	T. galeus			"Nasal horn core."	A dubious ceratopsian
	Indeterminate

Saurischians

Saurischians of the Denver Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Abundance	Notes	Images
Aublysodon Aublysodon Aublysodon is a name given to a large number of carnivorous dinosaur teeth of a certain form found in numerous late Cretaceous period geological formations...	A. mirandus				Later found to be indeterminate tyrannosauroid remains.
Ornithomimus Ornithomimus Ornithomimus is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America.In 1890 Ornithomimus velox was named by Othniel Charles Marsh on the basis of a foot and partial hand from the Maastrichtian Denver Formation. Another seventeen species have been named since...	O. velox
Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus meaning "tyrant," and sauros meaning "lizard") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex , commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is a fixture in popular culture. It lived throughout what is now western North America, with a much wider range than other...	T. rex

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