Fruitland Formation the Colorado-New Mexico state line, and is one of the most productive areas for coalbed methane in the United States. The Fruitland is underlain by the Pictured Cliffs Sandstone, and overlain by the more recent Kirtland Formation. The sequence of rocks represents the final filling of the Cretaceous seaway. The underlying Pictured Cliffs is a marginal marine sandstone, deposited in an environment similar to offshore barrier islands of the southeast United States. As the seaway retreated, the Pictured Cliffs was covered by the Fruitland Formation, which was deposited in near-shore swampy lowlands. The formation is dated to the late Campanian
Flaming Cliffs refers to the red or orange color of the sandstone cliffs (especially at a sunset). The following are dinosaur fossils that have been found in the Flaming Cliffs. Theropods: Ornithischians Flaming Cliffs The Flaming Cliffs site, also known as Bayanzag, sometimes Bain-Dzak, ( "rich in saxaul"), with the alternative Mongolian name of ("red cliffs"), is a region of the Gobi Desert in the Ömnögovi Province of Mongolia, in which important fossil finds have been made. It was given this name by American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, who visited in the 1920s. The area is most famous for yielding the first