Lorraine Group Explained

Lorraine Group
Type:	Group
Age:	Ordovician
Region:	Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario, Quebec
Country:	Canada and United States
Subunits:	Utica Shale, Frankfort Shale, and the Whetstone Gulf Formation
Overlies:	Trenton Group

The Lorraine Group is a geologic group in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.

It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician Period.

The group is host to pyritized trilobites and other fossils in New York including the Beecher's Trilobite Bed.^[1]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Indiana
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kentucky
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in New York
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ohio
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ontario
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Quebec
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tennessee

References

• Web site: Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database)). 17 December 2021.

Notes and References

1. http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/37/10/907.abstract Farrell, Úna C., et al., Beyond Beecher's Trilobite Bed: Widespread pyritization of soft tissues in the Late Ordovician Taconic foreland basin, Geology, v. 37 no. 10 p. 907-910