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Nocona Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Permian,
Wolfcampian (Sakmarian?–Artinskian?)
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TypeFormation
Unit ofWichita Group
UnderliesPetrolia Formation
OverliesArcher City Formation
Thickness350 ft.
Lithology
Primarymudstone
Othersandstone, siltstone
Location
RegionNocona Formation Texas
CountryNocona Formation United States
Type section
Named byHentz & Brown, 1987

The Nocona Formation is a geological formation in Texas, dating back to the Wolfcampian series (Early Permian). As part of the Texas red beds, it is one of several formations renowned for dense bonebeds of terrestrial vertebrate fossils.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Romer, A. S.; Price, L. W. (1940), Review of the Pelycosauria, Geological Society of America Special Papers, vol. 28, Geological Society of America, pp. 1–534, doi:10.1130/spe28-p1
  2. ^ Sander, P. Martin (1987). "Taphonomy of the Lower Permian Geraldine Bonebed in Archer County, Texas". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 61: 221–236. doi:10.1016/0031-0182(87)90051-4.
  3. ^ Martin Sander, P. (1989). "Early Permian depositional environments and pond bonebeds in central Archer County, Texas". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 69: 1–21. doi:10.1016/0031-0182(89)90153-3. ISSN 0031-0182.

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