The Frenchman Formation consists of olive-green to brown, fine- to coarse-grained, cross-bedded sandstone with interbedded claystone bands and minor beds and lenses of intraformational clay-clast conglomerate.

[3] The Frenchman Formation is present in southwestern Saskatchewan and the Cypress Hills area of southeastern Alberta.

Storer described fossil mammals from the Gryde locality in the Frenchman Formation, including Parectypodus and Alphadon.

[5] A bone (the humeral end of the left coracoid) of a bird attributed to the genus Cimolopteryx has also been described from the Gryde locality.

"[7] A hadrosaurid[8] Junior synonym of E. annectens[8] Thescelosaurus T. assiniboiensis Torosaurus T. latus Chasmosaurinae indet.