Antelope Valley Limestone | |
Type: | Geologic formation |
Age: | Ordovician Period |
Period: | Ordovician |
Prilithology: | Limestone |
Namedfor: | Antelope Valley (Nevada) |
Region: | Nevada |
Country: | United States |
Unitof: | Pogonip Group |
Underlies: | Copenhagen Formation |
Overlies: | Ninemile Formation |
Thickness: | 1100feet |
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]