Reeds Spring Formation | |
Type: | Formation |
Age: | Mississippian Osagean Series |
Prilithology: | Limestone |
Otherlithology: | Shale, chert[1] |
Namedfor: | Reeds Spring, Stone County, Missouri |
Namedby: | Moore in 1928[2] |
Region: | Southwestern Missouri |
Country: | United States |
Underlies: | Elsey Formation |
Overlies: | Pierson Formation |
The Reeds Spring Formation is a geologic formation in southwestern Missouri. It preserves fossils dating back to the Osagean Series of the Mississippian subperiod.