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Antelope Valley Limestone

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Antelope Valley Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Ordovician Period
Antelope Valley Limestone (Meiklejohn Peak, Nevada)
TypeGeologic formation
Unit ofPogonip Group
UnderliesCopenhagen Formation
OverliesNinemile Formation
Thickness1,100 feet (340 m)
Lithology
PrimaryLimestone
Location
RegionNevada
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forAntelope Valley (Nevada)

The Antelope Valley Limestone is a limestone geologic formation of the Pogonip Group in southern Nevada.

It is found in the Antelope Valley region of Eureka County and Nye County.

It preserves fossils dating back to the Whiterock Stage of the Ordovician period.

Funeralaspis, the oldest named odontopleurine trilobite, is known from the Dapingian sediments of this formation.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ Adrain, J. M.; Pérez-Peris, F. (2023). "Funeralaspis n. gen.: a new odontopleurine trilobite from the early Middle Ordovician (Dapingian) of Death Valley, eastern California, USA, and the classification of Ordovician odontopleurines". Zootaxa. 5336 (4): 509–529. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5336.4.3. PMID 38221079.

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