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Williston Formation
Stratigraphic range: Paleogene
TypeFormation
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RegionWilliston Formation Florida
CountryWilliston Formation United States

The Williston Formation is a geologic formation in Florida. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period.

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Williston Formation

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The Williston Formation is a geologic formation in Florida. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period. Earth sciences portal Florida portal...

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Williston Basin

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The Williston Basin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin in eastern Montana, western North Dakota, South Dakota, southern Saskatchewan, and south-western...

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Bakken formation

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of the subsurface of the Williston Basin, underlying parts of Montana, North Dakota, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The formation was initially described by...

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Pteranodon

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species name until Williston's work, and therefore had been a nomen nudum and could not beat out Pteranodon for naming priority. Williston accepted this conclusion...

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Hell Creek Formation

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The Hell Creek Formation is an intensively studied division of mostly Upper Cretaceous and some lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures...

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Niobrara Formation

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direction of professional fossil collectors such as B. F. Mudge and S. W. Williston appointed by Marsh. The Niobrara Chalk has been continuously explored...

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Florida

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Branch Formation Paleogene Nashua Formation Early Pleistocene Ocala Limestone Paleogene Williston Formation Paleogene Penney Farms Formation early Miocene...

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Red River Formation

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The Red River Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Late Ordovician age in the Williston Basin. It takes the name from the Red River of the North, and...

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Three Forks Group

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subsurface of the Williston Basin, the Three Forks is referred to as the Three Forks Formation, which lies between the Birdbear Formation below, and the...

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Gypsum Spring Formation

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The Gypsum Spring Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Middle Jurassic age in the Williston Basin. It takes the name from Gypsum Spring in Wyoming,...

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Stony Mountain Formation

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D.B. Dowling in 1900. The Stony Mountain Formation is divided in the following sub-units: South (Williston Basin) Penitentiary Member: argillaceous dolomite...

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Elk Point Group

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stratigraphic unit of Early to Middle Devonian age in the Western Canada and Williston sedimentary basins. It underlies a large area that extends from the southern...

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Sentinel Butte Formation

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The Sentinel Butte Formation is a geologic formation of Paleocene age in the Williston Basin of western North Dakota. It preserves significant assemblages...

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Schooler Creek Group

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Peace River Country. The Pardonet Formation has its type locality at Pardonet Hill, on the south shore of the Williston Lake at 56°03′12″N 123°01′08″W...

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Saskatchewan Group

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present in the sub-surface throughout the Williston Basin. The Saskatchewan Group contains the following formations, from top to base: The Saskatchewan Group...

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Big Snowy Group

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the Williston Basin and into a limited area of south-central Saskatchewan. The Big Snowy Group is unconformably overlain by the Tyler Formation in Montana...

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Paleobiota of the Hell Creek Formation

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Daniel J.; Hickey, Leo J. (October 2014). "Fort Union Formation Fossil Leaves (Paleocene, Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA) Indicate Evolutionary Relationships...

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Varanops

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named by Samuel Wendell Williston in 1911 as a second species of Varanosaurus, Varanosaurus brevirostris. In 1914, Samuel W. Williston reassigned it to its...

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El Cobre Canyon Formation

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the 1870s onwards. S.W. Williston and E.C. Case determined in 1913 that the beds later assigned to the El Cobre Canyon Formation contained the Pennsylvanian...

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Madison Group

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setting, indicated by the richly fossiliferous rocks of the Madison. In the Williston Basin, water was shallow enough for oolite shoals to develop; they later...

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Waggoner Ranch Formation

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Paleontology in Texas Waggoner Ranch Formation at Fossilworks.org Romer, 1928 Williston, 1915 Romer & Price, 1940 Williston, 1914 Vaughn, 1955 Fox & Bowman...

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Baldonnel Formation

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the north shore of Williston Lake, at 56°06′51″N 122°48′39″W / 56.11404°N 122.81095°W / 56.11404; -122.81095 (Baldonnel Formation). The upper unit of...

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Stonewall Formation

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and at the top of the formation. In the central Williston basin, the base is marked by an anhydrite bed. The Stonewall Formation occurs at surface in the...

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Deadwood Formation

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The Deadwood Formation is a geologic formation of the Williston Basin and Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It is present in parts of North and South Dakota...

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Dakota Formation

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The Dakota is a sedimentary geologic unit name of formation and group rank in Midwestern North America. The Dakota units are generally composed of sandstones...

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Ankylosaurus

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Ankylosaurus was merely a synonym of the genus Stegopelta, which Williston had named in 1905. Williston also stated that a skeletal reconstruction of the related...

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Abrahamskraal Formation

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localities, then around Sutherland, the Moordenaarskaroo north of Laingsburg, Williston, Fraserburg, Leeu-Gamka, Loxton, and Victoria West in the Western Cape...

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