Goodland Limestone Explained

Goodland Limestone
Type:	Formation
Age:	Cretaceous
Period:	Cretaceous
Prilithology:	Limestone
Namedfor:	Goodland, Choctaw County, Oklahoma
Namedby:	Robert Thomas Hill^[1]
Region:	Arkansas, Texas
Underlies:	Kiamichi Shale
Overlies:	Trinity Group

The Goodland Limestone or Goodland Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas^[2] and Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.^[3]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas
• Paleontology in Texas

References

1. Hill. R.T.. The Comanche series of the Texas-Arkansas region. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 1891. 2. 1. 504, 514–515, 516, 522. 1891GSAB....2..503H. 10.1130/GSAB-2-503.
2. McFarland. John David. Stratigraphic summary of Arkansas. Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular. 2004. 1998. 36. 27. 2018-01-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20161221195953/http://www.geology.ar.gov/pdf/IC-36_v.pdf. 2016-12-21. dead.
3. Omaña, L., Alencaster, G., Buitrón, B.E.. 2016. Mid-early late Albian foraminiferal assemblage from the El Abra Formation in the El Madroño locality, eastern Valles–San Luis Potosí Platform, Mexico: Paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographical significance. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. 68. 3. 477–492. 10.18268/BSGM2016v68n3a6. free.

• Web site: Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database)). 17 December 2021. 25 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220325060448/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home. dead.