The Frenchman Formation is a division of Upper Cretaceous rocks found in Saskatchewan, Canada. More accurately described as Late Maastrichtian, these rocks contain the youngest of dinosaur genera, much like the Hell Creek Formation in the United States.
The formation was defined by G.M. Furnival in 1942 from observations of outcrops along the Frenchman River in Saskatchewan, between Ravenscrag and Highway 37.
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