| Compton Limestone | |
| Type: | Formation |
| Age: | Mississippian |
| Period: | Mississippian |
| Prilithology: | Limestone |
| Otherlithology: | Shale |
| Namedfor: | Compton, Webster County, Missouri |
| Namedby: | Raymond Cecil Moore[1] |
| Region: | Missouri (southwest): Springfield Plateau section of the Ozarks |
| Country: | United States |
| Underlies: | Northview Formation |
| Overlies: | Cotter Formation, Chattanooga Shale |
| Thickness: | 5 to 50 ft[2] |
The Compton Limestone is a geologic formation in southwest Missouri.[2] It preserves brachiopod and echinoderm fossils of the Mississippian subperiod.[3] The Compton rests unconformably on the Cotter Dolomite of Ordovician age. The Compton was named for the community of Compton, Missouri, as the type sections were described for outcrops along the James River and its tributary the Compton Branch.[4]