Holly Creek Formation

Holly Creek Formation
Stratigraphic range: Cretaceous
TypeFormation
Location
RegionArkansas
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forLittle Holly Creek and Holly Creek, Howard County, Arkansas
Named byHarold C. Vanderpool[1]

The Holly Creek Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period which belong to the Trinity Group.[2]

  1. ^ Vanderpool, H.C. (1928). "A preliminary study of the Trinity group in southwestern Arkansas, southeastern Oklahoma, and northern Texas". Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. 12: 1079–1080.
  2. ^ Suarez, Celina A.; Frederickson, Joseph; Cifelli, Richard L.; Pittman, Jeffrey G.; Nydam, Randall L.; Hunt-Foster, ReBecca K.; Morgan, Kirsty (2021-10-21). "A new vertebrate fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Holly Creek Formation of the Trinity Group, southwest Arkansas, USA". PeerJ. 9: e12242. doi:10.7717/peerj.12242. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8542373. PMID 34721970.