Tropic Shale

Tropic Shale
Stratigraphic range: Cenomanian to Turonian
Type Geological formation
Unit of Kaiparowits Plateau
Underlies Straight Cliffs Formation
Overlies Dakota Formation
Lithology
Primary Shale
Location
Region Utah
Country United States
Type section
Named for Exposures near Tropic, Garfield County, Utah
Named by Gregory and Moore, 1931[1]

The Tropic Shale is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation,[2] including Nothronychus graffami.

Footnotes

  1. Geolex — Unit Summary, USGS
  2. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.

References


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