| Antelope Valley Limestone | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Ordovician Period | |
_3.jpg) Antelope Valley Limestone (Meiklejohn Peak, Nevada) | |
| Type | Geologic formation |
| Unit of | Pogonip Group |
| Underlies | Copenhagen Formation |
| Overlies | Ninemile Formation |
| Thickness | 1,100 feet (340 m) |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Limestone |
| Location | |
| Region | Nevada |
| Country | United States |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Antelope 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]
- ^ 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.