The first Quetzalcoatlus fossils were discovered in Texas, from the Maastrichtian Javelina Formation at Big Bend National Park ( dated to around 68 million years ago ) in 1971 by a geology graduate student from the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences, Douglas A. Lawson.

The first radiometric ages from the Judith River Formation ( Upper Cretaceous ), Hill County, Montana.

The town gave its name to the mid-Ordovician Chazy Formation, the first true reef system, which was originally identified from limestone outcroppings in the township.

The first aircraft, those of Formation No. 2 and heading for the longer, northern route, took off at 21: 28.

Formation No. 2 flew further north, cutting over Vlieland and crossing the IJsselmeer before joining the first route near Wesel and then flying south beyond the Möhne to the Sorpe River.

Formation No. 1 arrived over the Möhne lake and Gibson's aircraft ( G for George ) made the first run, followed by Hopgood ( M for Mother ).

In 1835 he published an Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages ( re-edited in 1862 ), the first effective criticism in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland of François Juste Marie Raynouard's theory of a uniform romance tongue, represented by the poetry of the troubadours.

May 27, 1959: Formation of the first elected government under the Prime Ministership of B. P.

When they were first methodically published, in 1993, the Crato Formation limestones provided a new site for pterosaurs, one that also preserved insects that fell into a brackish lagoon and semionotid fish preserved in phosphatized nodules.

He paid particular attention to the needs of the 500 or so children living in the village ( one of the tenement blocks is named Nursery Buildings ) and working at the mills, and opened the first infants ' school in Britain in 1817, although the previous year he had completed the Institute for the Formation of Character.

In 1991, George Olshevsky assigned the Lance formation fossils, which had first been named Pectinodon bakkeri but later synonymized with Troodon formosus to the species Troodon bakkeri, and several other researchers ( including Currie ) have reverted to keeping the Dinosaur Park Formation fossils separate as Troodon inequalis ( formerly Stenonychosaurus ).

These clasts were the first discovery of in situ gastroliths from the Cedar Mountain Formation.

* 1844: Formation of Royal Society of Tasmania, first branch outside Britain, as development of society founded in 1837 by Sir John Franklin ; society branch takes over botanical gardens

The first documented records of ( invertebrate ) fossils from what is now called the Green River Formation are in the journals of early missionaries and explorers such as S. A. Parker, 1840, and J. C. Fremont, 1845.

This park has fossils of dinosaurs including Allosaurus, Abydosaurus ( a nearly complete skull, lower jaws and first four neck vertebrae of the specimen DINO 16488 found here at the base of the Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation is the holotype for the description ) and various long-neck, long-tail sauropods.

Caudipteryx fossils were first discovered in the Yixian Formation of the Sihetun area of Liaoning Province, northeastern China in 1997.

The Yukon Tanana terrane was the first exotic terrane to accrete to North America Formation.

The first fossil remains of Therizinosaurus were discovered in 1948 by a joint Soviet-Mongolian fossil expedition, in the Nemegt Formation of southwestern Mongolia.

Nautiloids are first known from the late Cambrian Fengshan Formation of northeastern China, where they seem to have been quite diverse ( at the time this was a warm shallow sea rich in marine life ).

They were among the first dinosaurs discovered from the Yixian Formation in Liaoning Province, and were members of the remarkable Jehol Biota.

The Formation of Damnation was the first Testament studio album of all new material in nine years, and the first to feature Alex Skolnick on guitar since 1992's The Ritual, also the first to feature bassist Greg Christian since 1994's Low was released on April 29, 2008.

The latter formed the base of his first major study, The Formation of English Philosophical Radicalism ( 3 vols., 1901-1904 ).

Formation of an Auckland unit under Colonel Nixon commenced in July and by the 14th had 30 men.

* Carmel Formation, a Middle Jurassic rock unit in the southwestern United States

The two teeth were found in different sites in a white sandstone unit of the Maevarano Formation near the village of Berivotra and have been deposited in the collections of the University of Antananarivo ( specimen UA 8653 ) and Field Museum of Natural History ( specimen FMNH PM 59520 ).

* Banff Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

* Tecovas Formation: Part of the Dockum Group with the Trujillo Formation, this multicolored Triassic unit consists of shale, siltstone, and sandstone.

* Ogallala Formation: This late Miocene to early Pliocene unit forms the cliffs and ledges at the very top of the Canyon.

* Pottsville Formation, a bedrock unit in the Appalachian Mountains of North America.

The extent of the Crato unit and its relationship to the Santana Formation had long been ill defined.

It was not until a 2007 volume on the unit by Martill, Bechly and Loveridge that the Crato Formation was given a formal type locality, and was formally made a distinct formation separate from the Santana, which is about 10 Ma younger.

* Allegheny Formation, a mapped bedrock unit of West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania

* Marcellus Formation, a mapped bedrock unit in eastern North America

As the Abwehr started to lose the Führer's goodwill during the war, a new reconnaissance unit, the 2nd Test Formation, was formed in 1942 under the command of Werner Baumbach.

This unit was combined with 1st Test Formation in March 1944 to form KG 200 on 20 February 1944.

Contact between two units of the lithostratigraphy of South England: the Chalk Group ( left, white, upper unit ) and the Greensand formation | Greensand Formation ( right, green, lower unit ).

* McMurray Formation, stratigraphical unit

* Lynx Formation, a stratigraphical unit in western Canada

Only the two sandstone members of the Cutler Formation, the Cedar Mesa and White Rim, are exposed in the park but they can't be easily distinguished from each other and are thus often treated as a single stratigraphic unit there.

The Special Operations Force ( SOF ) is a special forces unit in the Commando Formation of the Singapore Army and a component of the joint Special Operations Task Force.

* Formation – primary unit of lithostratigraphy

; Formation: Formations are the primary formal unit of lithostratigraphic classification.

* Leduc Formation, a stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

The Stephen Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin was first described at the mountain and was named for it.