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Fossil Falls (theme)

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"Fossil Falls"
"Fossil Falls" in Super Mario Odyssey
Cascade Kingdom artwork from Super Mario Odyssey.
Image from Nintendo Music
Composed by:
Naoto Kubo
Key C major
First appearance Super Mario Odyssey (2017)
Latest appearance Mario Kart World (2025)

"Fossil Falls"[1] is a musical theme composed by Naoto Kubo for Super Mario Odyssey, where it plays in the Cascade Kingdom and the first underground section of Darker Side. This theme serves as the main theme for the entire game, with various arrangements being included in jingles and other areas of the game.

ReusesEdit

The following list does not include ports or remakes of Super Mario Odyssey.

Work Description
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo Switch / Nintendo 3DS) "Fossil Falls" is played during the Mine Cart Cascade Crusade level.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate "Fossil Falls" is a playable track on any Super Smash Bros.- and Super Mario-series stage.
Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo "Fossil Falls" is played as part of the "Chain Chomp at Fossil Falls" alarm.

ArrangementsEdit

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Super Mario OdysseyEdit

Super Mario Odyssey features several rearrangements of "Fossil Falls":

  • "Meeting Cappy"
  • "Capturing a Frog"
  • "Fossil Falls - 8-Bit"
  • "You Got a Moon! 1"
  • "You Got a Multi Moon!"
  • "Mario Meets the World: The Odyssey's Maiden Voyage"
  • "Setting the Scene 1"
  • "To the Next Kingdom"
  • "Setting the Scene 3"
  • "Odyssey to the Moon"
  • "Battling Bowser 2: The Final Fight"
  • "Honeylune Ridge: Collapse"
  • "Honeylune Ridge: Collapse - 8-Bit"
  • "The Super Mario Odyssey Crew"
  • "The Wardrobe Widens!"
  • "The Farthest Lullaby - Fossil Falls - Music Box Ver."
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  To the Next Kingdom
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  Battling Bowser 2: The Final Fight
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  Honeylune Ridge: Collapse
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  Honeylune Ridge: Collapse - 8-Bit
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"Fossil Falls" is featured in Super Mario Odyssey Sound Selection. Super Mario Odyssey Original Soundtrack features "Fossil Falls" as well as the other arrangements featured in the game.

In addition, a faster variant of the theme is arranged multiple times in the game as a jingle, including when Mario collects a Life-Up Heart or activates a secret.

The Super Mario Bros. MovieEdit

The Super Mario Bros. Movie features a brief arrangement of "Fossil Falls" in the beginning of the track "Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom," which was composed by Brian Tyler. In this arrangement, an orchestrated version of the main melody is played before transitioning into a rendition of P Switch BGM / Toad's House.

Mario Kart WorldEdit

In Mario Kart World, a sitar arrangement of "Fossil Falls" can play in Free Roam.

Other arrangementsEdit

The Game Awards 2020Edit

During the Game Awards 2020, as part of the Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary celebration, the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed a medley featuring arrangements of various Super Mario themes including "Fossil Falls".[2]

Super Mario Orchestra ConcertEdit

"Fossil Falls" is included on the setlist of the Super Mario Orchestra Concert as part of a medley with other themes from Super Mario Odyssey.

Cosmos Fountain ShowEdit

A version of the Game Awards 2020 arrangement is played at Universal Epic Universe in the Cosmos Fountain Show as part of a medley featuring other Super Mario themes.[3]

List of Super Mario appearancesEdit

GamesEdit

Work System Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario Odyssey Nintendo Switch 2017 Original "Fossil Falls"[1] Naoto Kubo
Arrangement
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch 2018 Original Naoto Kubo
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Switch 2018 Original "Fossil Falls"[4] Naoto Kubo
Mario Kart World Nintendo Switch 2 2025 Arrangement

Film and televisionEdit

Work Year Type Title Credits
The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023 Arrangement "Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom"[5] Brian Tyler

AlbumsEdit

Work Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario Odyssey Sound Selection 2017 Original "Fossil Falls" Naoto Kubo
Super Mario Odyssey Original Soundtrack 2018 Original "Fossil Falls" Naoto Kubo
Past arrangement (Super Mario Odyssey)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2023 Past arrangement (The Super Mario Bros. Movie) "Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom" Brian Tyler

Other mediaEdit

Work Year Type Title Credits
Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo 2024 Past arrangement (Super Mario Odyssey)

GalleryEdit

  • Image for "Meeting Cappy" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "Capturing a Frog" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "Fossil Falls - 8-Bit" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "You Got a Moon! 1" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "You Got a Multi Moon!" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "Mario Meets the World: The Odyssey's Maiden Voyage" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "Setting the Scene 1" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "To the Next Kingdom" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "Setting the Scene 3" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "Odyssey to the Moon" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "Battling Bowser 2: The Final Fight" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "Honeylune Ridge: Collapse" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "Honeylune Ridge: Collapse - 8-Bit" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "The Super Mario Odyssey Crew" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "The Wardrobe Widens!" on Nintendo Music

  • Image for "The Farthest Lullaby - Fossil Falls - Music Box Ver." on Nintendo Music

Names in other languagesEdit

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ダイナフォー[1]
Dainafō 		Portmanteau of 「ダイナソー」 (dainasō, "dinosaur") and 「ウォーターフォール」 (wōtāfōru, "waterfall"); officially romanized as "Dinofour"[6]

NotesEdit

  • On the Nintendo Music app, "Fossil Falls" is labeled as 'Selects', classifying it as one "of the very best tracks from the Nintendo Music library", originating from Super Mario Odyssey. "Fossil Falls" shares this title with "Steam Gardens" and "Jump Up, Super Star!".

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ a b c Nintendo Music
  2. ^ thegameawards (December 10, 2020). London Philharmonic Performs a Super Mario Bros. Medley at The Game Awards 2020. YouTube. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  3. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHTQkwLrias
  4. ^ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Sound Test
  5. ^ The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  6. ^ 2018. The Art of Super Mario Odyssey. Tokuma Shoten (Japanese). ISBN 978-4198646967. Page 322.

External linksEdit

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Recurring themes
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong "Game Start" • "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Round Start BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. "Game Start" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Country "Aquatic Ambiance" • "Bonus Room Blitz" • "Cave Dweller Concert" • "Cranky's Theme" • "The Credits Concerto" • "DK Island Swing" • "Fear Factory" • "Forest Frenzy" • "Funky's Fugue" • "Gang-Plank Galleon" • "Life in the Mines" • "Lost a Balloon" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Simian Segue" • "Treetop Rock" • "Voices of the Temple" • "Well Done"
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Crocodile Cacophony (K. Rool's Theme)" • "Lockjaw's Saga (Lockjaw's Locker)" • "Run, Rambi! Run! (Parrot Chute Panic)" • "Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast)"
Donkey Kong 64 "DK Isle" • "DK Rap"
Donkey Kong Country Returns "Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series Mario Bros. "Game Start" • "Title BGM"
Wrecking Crew series Wrecking Crew "Bonus Phase" • "Phase BGM"
Super Mario series Super Mario Bros. "1-Up" • "Castle BGM" • "Course Clear" ("Power Up") • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Game Over" · "Player Down") • "Invincibility BGM" • "Timer Warning" • "Underground BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "World Clear"
VS. Super Mario Bros. "Gyōmu-yō Mario Namae-ire"
Super Mario Bros. 2 "Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Underground BGM"
Super Mario Bros. 3 "Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" • "Bros. Battle" • "Ending" • "Fortress BGM" • "Fortress Boss" • "Game Over" • "Ground BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Player Down" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "Warp Zone" • "World 1 Map (Grass Land)" • "World 2 Map (Desert Land)" • "World 3 Map (Water Land)" • "World 4 Map (Giant Land)" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - On the Ground" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - In the Sky" • "World 6 Map (Ice Land)" • "World 7 Map (Pipe Land)" • "World 8 Map (Dark Land)"
Super Mario Land "Main Theme" • "Underground Theme"
Super Mario World "Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · "Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Course Clear" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Star World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
Super Mario 64 "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll"
Super Mario Sunshine "Isle Delfino" ("Ricco Harbor") • "Secret Course"
New Super Mario Bros. "Course Clear" • "Fortress Theme" • "Main Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Mega Mario" • "Switch On!"
Super Mario Galaxy "Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "Luma" • "Overture" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Bonus Area" • "Castle Theme" • "Coast Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Forest Theme" • "Ghost House Theme" • "Lava Cave / Underground Ruins Theme" • "Lava Theme" • "Title Theme" ("Game Over") • "Toad House Minigame" • "Underwater Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy 2 "Bowser's Galaxy Generator" • "Puzzle Plank Galaxy" • "Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer Theme" • "Teleporter Melody"
Super Mario 3D Land "Castle Theme" • "Main Theme" • "Snow Course" • "Underwater Theme"
New Super Mario Bros. U "Ground Theme"
Super Mario 3D World "A Boss Approaches" • "Chainlink Charge" • "Piranha Creeper Creek" • "Super Bell Hill"
Super Mario Maker "Title Theme"
Super Mario Odyssey "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!"
Dr. Mario series Dr. Mario "Chill" • "Fever" • "Game Over" • "Selection Screen" • "Title Screen"
Mario Kart series Super Mario Kart "Award Ceremony" • "Donut Plains" • "Mario Circuit" • "Rainbow Road" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen"
Mario Kart 64 "Battle Arenas" • "Choco Mountain" • "Frappe Snowland" • "Kalimari Desert" • "Koopa Troopa Beach" • "Luigi Raceway" • "Moo Moo Farm" • "Rainbow Road" • "Results (1st − 4th Place)" • "Staff Credits" • "Starting Grid (Time Trials / Battle)" • "Toad's Turnpike"
Mario Kart: Super Circuit "Koopa Castle Course" • "GBA Mario Circuit"
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! "GCN Baby Park" • "GCN Daisy Cruiser" • "GCN Yoshi Circuit"
Mario Kart DS "Waluigi Pinball"
Mario Kart Wii "Coconut Mall" • "Luigi Circuit/Mario Circuit" • "Wii Maple Treeway" • "Moo Moo Meadows" • "Mushroom Gorge" • "Wario's Gold Mine"
Mario Kart 7 "Neo Bowser City" • "Piranha Plant Slide" • "Toad Circuit"
Mario Kart 8 "Cloudtop Cruise"
Yoshi franchise Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island "Athletic BGM" • "Bowser" • "Flower Field BGM" • "Opening Melody" • "Powerful Mario" • "Stage Start" • "Yoshi's Island"
Yoshi's Story "Yoshi's Song" • "Yoshi's Story!" • "Yoshi's Tale"
Luigi's Mansion series Luigi's Mansion "Title Theme (Humming)"
Wario franchise WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! "Drifting Away" • "Pyoro" • "WarioWare, Inc." ("Dr. Crygor")
WarioWare: Twisted! "Mona Pizza"
WarioWare: Touched! "Ashley's Theme"
Mario vs. Donkey Kong series Mario vs. Donkey Kong "Mini Mario Stage"
Other The Legend of Zelda "Important Item Acquired" • "Overworld Theme"
Mario Paint "Save & Load"
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars "Beware of Forest Mushrooms" • "Hello, Happy Kingdom"
Miscellaneous "Le Galop infernal d'Orphée aux Enfers" • "Totaka's Song"
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Super Mario Odyssey
Playable characters Mario • Cappy
Non-playable characters Princess Peach • Tiara • Bonneters • Bonneter biologist • Frogs • Hint Toad • Uncle amiibo • Talkatoo • Tostarenans • Desert Wanderer • Sheep • Moe-Eyes • Sphynx • Jaxi • Glydon • Koopas • Roving Racers • Lakitus • Goombettes • Lochladies • Style Sisters • Dorries • Steam Gardeners • Rabbits • New Donkers • Mayor Pauline • Band • Shiverians • Shiverian Racers • Shiverian Elder • Bubblainians • Coach • Dog • Volbonans • Poochy • Toads • Captain Toad • Toad Brigade (Green Toad · Yellow Toad · Purple Toad) • Archivist Toadette • Jammin' Toad • Yoshi • Luigia
Enemies Astro-Lanceur • Banzai Bill • Big Chain Chomp • Big Poison Piranha Plant • Bitefrost • Broode's Chain Chomp • Bullet Bill • Burrbo • Chain Chomp • Chargin' Chuck • Cheep Cheep • Chincho • Coin Coffer • Donkey Kong • Fire Bro • Fire Piranha Plant • Fuzzy • Goomba • Gushen • Hammer Bro • Klepto • Komboo • Lava Bubble • Magmato • Maw-Ray • Mini Goomba • Moonsnake • Parabones • Paragoomba • Poison Piranha Plant • Pokio • Pulse Beam • Sherm • Spiny • Stairface Ogre • T-Rex • Trapeetle • Tropical Wiggler • Ty-foo • Uproot • Urban Stingby • Urban Stingby Larva • Yoofoe
Obstacles Banzai Bill Cannon • Barrel • Bill Blaster • Boulder • Cannonball • Firework bomb • Fortress turret • Freezing water • Ice • Icicle • Lava • Lava Geyser • Oil drum • Pepper • Poison • Quicksand • Revolving lattice wall • Rotating defense mechanism • Senobi Generate Point • Shell • Spike Trap • Wind • Wind Blow Tower • Wooden roller
Bosses Broodals Topper • Hariet • Spewart • Rango
Large bosses Madame Broode • Knucklotec • Torkdrift • Bowser • Mechawiggler • Mollusque-Lanceur • Cookatiel • Ruined Dragon • RoboBrood
Items Bubble • Coin • Coin pile • Fruit • Heart • Hidden Coin • Key • Life-Up Heart • Moon Shard • Multi Moon • Note • Nut • Pauline's lost items • Power Moon • Regional coin • Rock • Rocket Flower • Seed • Turnip • Yoshi's Egg
Objects ? Block • 2D block • 8-bit character • 8-bit pipe • Airship • Arrow Sign • Bar • Barrier • Beanstalk • Big mushroom • Binding Band • Binoculars • Bird (traveling) • Block • Boombox • Bowser statue • Brick Block • Bubbler • Butterfly • Cactus • Checkpoint Flag • Cheese rock • Coin Block • Coin ring • Crate • Dumpster • Falling Platform • Fish • Floating corn • Flower (Cap Throw) • Flower (environmental object) • Flower Road • Fog • Frost-Frosted Cake • Giant Swing • Girder • Glowing spot • Goomba button • Ground-Pound Switch • Hat Catapult • Hat cloud • Hat Launcher • Hat Trampoline • Hidden Block • Hill • Hip Drop Move Lift • Hint Art • Hole • Jaxi Stand • Jaxi Statue • Jizo • Keyhole Pedestal • Knob-like structure • Koopa Shell • Lantern • Lava cannon • Letter • Lever Switch • Lift • Lochlady Dress • Lurker • Manhole • Meat • Mini Rocket • Moon Cage • Moon Pedestal • Moon Pipe • Moon platform • Moon Rock • Motor scooter • Movable cover • Mushroom Platform • Mysterious sprout • P Switch • Parking lot • Penguin • Pipe • Pole • Pole (bollard) • Post • Propeller Pillar • Push-Block • Puzzle Part • Rankings Board • RC Car • Red door • Rising Stone Pillar • Rock wall • Rotating building • Rotating dial • Rotating platform • Sand Geyser • Scarecrow • Seagull • Seesaw • Slots • Small animal • Small bird • Small UFO • Snow • Soft wall • Soirée Bouquet • Spark pylon • Sparkle Water • Spinning block • Spinning saucepan • Steel Block • Stone marker • Stone spire • Stone wall • Stupendous Stew • Swing • Swinging Scaffolding • Sword • Tail Tree • Tapering platform • Taxi • Trampoline • Transparent Platform • Trash Can • Travel Tip • Treasure chest • Tree • Vanishing platform • Volcano • Wardrobe closet • Warp hole • Wedding-announcement poster • Wire Net Platform • Wooden pendulum • Yellow turnstile • Zipper
Locations Main story Cap Kingdom (Bonneton) • Cascade Kingdom (Fossil Falls) • Sand Kingdom (Tostarena) • Lake Kingdom (Lake Lamode) • Wooded Kingdom (Steam Gardens) • Cloud Kingdom (Nimbus Arena) • Lost Kingdom (Forgotten Isle) • Metro Kingdom (New Donk City) • Snow Kingdom (Shiveria) • Seaside Kingdom (Bubblaine) • Luncheon Kingdom (Mount Volbono) • Ruined Kingdom (Crumbleden) • Bowser's Kingdom (Bowser's Castle) • Moon Kingdom (Honeylune Ridge)
Post-story Mushroom Kingdom (Peach's Castle) • Dark Side (Rabbit Ridge) • Darker Side (Culmina Crater)
Other Odyssey • Crazy Cap • Starshroom
Moves Backward Somersault • Cap Jump • Cap Throw • Capture • Crawl • Crouch • Dash • Dive • Double Jump • Downward Throw • Drill Spin • Ground Pound • Ground Pound Jump • Jump • Long Jump • Quick Swim • Roll • Side Somersault • Spin Jump • Spin Throw • Swim • Triple Jump • Upward Throw • Wall Jump • Warp
Gameplay elements amiibo • Balloon Worlda • Beach Volleyball • Bound Bowl Grand Prix • Completion • Gravity • Gravity field • Health Meter • Jump-Rope Challenge • Koopa Freerunning • Koopa Trace-Walking • Nintendo Labob • Objectives • Picture Match • RC Car Challenge • Snapshot Mode
Music "Battling the Broodals" • "Break Free (Lead the Way)" • "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!" • "New Donk City" • "Peronza Plaza" • "Run, Jump, Throw! 1" • "Run, Jump, Throw! 2" • "The Forgotten Isle" • "Tostarena Nights" • "Tostarena Ruins" • "Underground Moon Caverns"
Further info The Art of Super Mario Odyssey • Gallery • Glitches • Lists of names in other languages (Clothing · Music List · Power Moons · Souvenirs) • Mario Reads Your Letters • Music List • Nintendo Music (soundtrack) • Original soundtrack • Pre-release and unused content • Quotes • Sound selection • Super Mario Odyssey (sticker book) • Staff • The Super Mario Players
a In version 1.2.0 or later
b In version 1.3.0 or later
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