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Geologic formation in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee
Fernvale Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Ordovician
TypeFormation
UnderliesCason Shale
OverliesKimmswick Limestone
Thickness0 to 100+ feet in Arkansas
Lithology
PrimaryLimestone
Location
RegionArkansas, Tennessee
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named byCharles Willard Hayes and Edward Oscar Ulrich

The Fernvale Limestone is a geologic formation in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.

Paleontology

Brachiopods

L. cooperi
L. oblongus

Conodonts

A. unicostatus
A. alveolaris
A. triangularis
A. ordovicica
A. polita
B. compressa
B. inclinata
B. ornata
B. penna
B. profunda
C. delicatus
C. flexuosus


D. brevis
D. scotti
D. typica
D. falcatus
D. homocurvatus
D. suberectus
E. delicata
I. superba
K. gracilis
O. abundans
O. inclinatus
O. parallelus
O. venustus


O. inclinata
O. tenuis
P. trigonius
P. compressus
P. ellisoni
P. fornicalis
P. gracilis
P. homosimilaris
P. panderi
P. simplex
P. sulcatus
P. undatus
P. furcata


R. divaricatus
R. typicus
S. robustus
S. insculptus
T. exacta
T. diminuta
T. tenuis
Z. curvata
Z. mira

See also

References

  1. ^ McFarland, John David (2004) . "Stratigraphic summary of Arkansas" (PDF). Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular. 36: 6–7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  2. Hayes, C.W.; Ulrich, E.O. (1903). "Description of the Columbia quadrangle" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas of the United States. 95: 2.
  3. ^ Amsden, Thomas W. (1983). "The Late Ordovician brachiopod genera Lepidocyclus and Hiscobeccus" (PDF). Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin. 132: 36–44, 52–59 (plates). Retrieved 4 February 2018.
  4. ^ Craig, William (1968). The stratigraphy and conodont paleontology of Ordovician and Silurian strata, Batesville district, Independence and Izard counties, Arkansas (PhD). The University of Texas.


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